Kathryn Morris UK

The Coin & Unbelief Double Date In Philly

The Philadelphia Independent Film Festival has published its schedule of screenings for the 5 day event.

“What do you mean ‘5 day event’?” I here you say. “The 17th to the 25th (inclusive) is 9 days.” And you sir would be correct. The schedule, however, says otherwise.

The PIFF calendar of screenings starts on the Friday (17th) with a series of opening night screenings. Included is a world première of Moon Hoax Now, which seeks to debunk all those ridiculous conspiracy theories that the conspiracy theories the moon landings were faked. Director Jet Wintzer will be there. Sounds like a hoot.

After that the event takes the weekend off and returns on Monday (20th) with another set of screenings and another world premiere. This time it is Sean Roberts’ drama Traffickers about a family of Philly drug dealers and their battle against a rival. Short film The Grey by Anthony Berenator Jr. also gets a first outing.

Among Tuesday’s varied collection films are two shorts receiving world premières: dramas Nesting Grounds (dir Ian Scott McCullough) and local boy Christian Filippone’s first project Stray.

Then we get to Wednesday and this is where our interest lies.

The Levitt Theater at the University of the Arts on South Broad Street in Philadelphia, is hosting the four screening events on the 22nd. The first kicks off at 5:20pm and contains 3 short films, two dramas and a documentary. Screening two is a go at 6:20pm and opens with Fabien Martorell’s The Coin. Watch three more shorts after that and 40 minutes later you could be watching Fabien’s new film Unbelief. 6 short drama films in 70 minutes.

There are more films listed as screening on the Thursday. There is nothing for Friday or Saturday (25th) which means, at the time of writing, it’s a 5 day event. Perhaps that will change prior to the first day. We’ve got what we came for though.

So that’s the Wednesday after next (the 22nd of April) at 6:20pm at the Levitt Theater in Philly. Got it?

More info is on the official website HERE.

(Un)Belief In The Coin Continues In Philly

Writer/director/producer Fabien Martorell is ramping up the promotion of his The Coin follow-up short film Unbelief.

After more than a year of The Coin appearing at film festivals around the world you could understand that it will be put to one side in favour of the new boy. However, that is proving not to be the case.

Fabien has let it be known that The Coin and Unbelief have both been selected for screening at the Philadelphia Independent Film Festival in April. A bit of a sort of homecoming for Kathryn as she attended college and university in the state and, of course, Cold Case was set there.

Unbelief stars Andrew Howard (Limitless) and Tobin Bell (Saw I/II/III/IV/V/VI/VIII (he missed one!)). Two men meet in a park on Xmas Eve. One of them is an assassin. I doubt they’re exchanging gifts and sharing eggnog.

At time of posting the PIFF screening schedule has not been announced, probably because the organisers only stopped accepting submissions in the past week. The festival runs from the 17th to the 25th of April. I’ll update you when I can.

Information about the festival can be found on the official website HERE.

Roommate Wanted – Deposit Not Required

Roommate Wanted (née 2Br/1Ba), the drama starring Alex Vega and Spencer Grammer, is edging closer to release.

The latest big step, after a trailer was published last week, is the DVD being available for pre-order on Amazon’s US website. The launch is set for the 19th of May of this year.

The disc is listed on this page at the bargain price of $13.99.

So far I’ve not seen any sign of it outside of the US of A so we’ll have to wait for further news on that. Distribution is often covered by different companies across the world which complicates things. The same stands for Video On Demand (VOD) services.

You may not realise this but Amazon customers from anywhere in the world can use their local account to login to any of the other national Amazon sites. Which means that, shipping allowing, anyone outside the USA can order from the US Amazon site.

Remember to come back to KM UK nearer the time for some KM UK exclusive KM content.

Short. Sweet. Film Fest. Long. Detailed. Schedule.

It may be called the ‘Short. Sweet. Film Fest‘ but their schedule for the festival is anything but.

The ‘Short. Sweet. Film Fest’ is a single venue event running over 3 days with the most detailed plan of events I’ve seen of any of the dozens I’ve looked at the past few years.

The Coin, the short film by Fabien Martorell and starring Christopher Lloyd (Taxi) and Kathryn, will be screened during the festival in Cleveland, Ohio, on Saturday the 11th of April. The venue is the Alex Theater, The Metropolitan At The 9 complex.

What normally happens at these short film festivals is for the individual movies to be grouped together, often around a common theme, to make a longer single screening. The exact timing of a particular item, or even the order, is thus rendered an unnecessary detail.

Not for the short ‘Short. Sweet. Film Fest.’ it isn’t.

Earlier this month the organisers released the official poster (see above right) and the schedule for the long weekend’s activities. It’s done to the minute for the every showing.

So, The Coin slots (see what I did there? never mind) in at 4:30pm, just after a ‘presentation’ by a local brewery.

Tickets and more details are available via the official website HERE.

Roommate Wanted Trailer

If only I’d known about this a week ago I’d still have been a week late.

A trailer for the movie Roommate Wanted, previously known as 2 Br/1 Ba, has been released. A copy can now be found in the Gallery.

Not surprisingly it focuses on our two leading ladies: Alexa Vega and Spencer Grammer. Kathryn does not feature, but then neither do any of the rest of the cast really either.

For more details on the movie and the May DVD/VOD release date check out our previous post here.