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The Coin Takes Win At SPIFF

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Two out of two.

A good weekend’s work for The Coin.

After success on Saturday at the Sunscreen Film Festival the roll continued as The Coin took another prize on Sunday (12th Oct).

The Coin won another Best Short Film award, this time at the San Pedro International Film Festival.

Congratulations again to all involved in the project.  How many more festivals will it be screened at and how many more trophies can it win?

The Coin Basks In Sunscreen Win

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One down.  One to go.

Yesterday (11th Oct) the short film The Coin was screened at the Sunscreen Film Festival (West) in South Bay, California.

There is good news from the event.  As you can see from the photo on the right Fabien Martorell is holding some silverware, albeit some non-silver silverware.  The good news is that that non-silver silverware represents gold.

The Coin won Best Short Film.

Congratulations to all the cast and crew on the continued success of the film at similar future events, both known and unknown.

Today the short is being screened at the neighbouring San Pedro International Film Festival.  Can it make it a double win?

Emmy Awards 2004 Arrivals Photo Update

arrivals_06The nominations for the 2014 Primetime Emmy Awards were announced yesterday.

Several things were notable by their absence.  Cold Case, Kathryn and KM UK.  Of course, only two of those things were ever actually eligible for an Emmy, and just one of them was ever nominated.  Cold Case was up for an “Art Direction” trophy for Factory Girls (S02E02) back in 2005.

But we’re not bitter.  Oh, no 😕

The 2014 nominations for the awards ceremony to be held in late August include a lot of British actors and shows,  Downton Abbey being probably the best known around the world.  Comedian Ricky Gervais’ is listed for his work in the often very moving comedy drama Derek.  Michelle Dockery, Jim Carter, Maggie Smith and Joanne Froggatt (all of Downton Abbey);  Chiwetel Ejiofor (Dancing On The Edge), Diana Rigg (Game Of Thrones), Martin Freeman (Fargo and Sherlock), Helena Bonham Carter (Burton And Taylor), Idris Elba (Luther), Daniel Craig (One Life), Alfred Molina (The Normal Heart), Cat Deeley (So You Think You Can Dance), Jeremy Irons (Game Of Lions), Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock Holmes), and Minnie Driver (Return To Zero) all gets nods.  As do the shows Luther, The White Queen, Sherlock Holmes and Downton Abbey.

As we often struggle to win things directly here in the UK (see the results in the recent World Cup and Wimbledon) we like to try and latch onto any success we can by association.  There are lots of connections with the United Kingdom throughout the Emmy nominations list this year.  As covered in some depth here on KM UK recently Veep has a lot of British input. Game Of Thrones is largely filmed with the Northern Ireland.  Episodes is a UK/USA co-production mostly filmed in England.  House Of Cards is based on a British drama series and we’ve half adopted its star Kevin Spacey as he’s been here a few years running the Old Vic theatre in London.  Dancing With The Stars, Antiques Roadshow and Who Do You Think You Are? we’ll claim too as they are exported BBC properties.

Looking down the full list of nominations I’m surprised to see multiple awards shows (Golden Globes and Tonys) up for awards.  Isn’t there a danger that awards shows giving other awards shows award will cause some rift in the space-time continuum and cause a blackhole or something  😮  It just sounds like a bad idea.

No doubt you have your own thoughts on the 2014 Primatime Emmy Awards nominations.  Good, bad, indifferent?

Where was I?  Oh, yes.  Back in September of 2004 Kathryn attended the Primetime Emmy Awards.  We’ve covered it before here on KM UK, and we will do again, but for now but yesterday’s announcements seemed like very good excuse (not that we need one really) to revisit this event and bring you 30, yes thirty, extra photos of Kathryn arriving at the event.  She looks amazing in her long red dress.

I’d like draw your attention in particular to the image in the top right of this post.  It was kindly donate to KM UK by our friend Alexia over at Emilia Fox Online.  Many thanks to her.  It’s a nice large image, which is nice, and large.

The Gallery is where you will find them all.

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The Coin Takes The Prize In Paris

champs_elysees_film_festival_960x355The Champs-Élysées Film Festival ended this evening with a closing ceremony and a screening of film The Trial of Viviane Amsalem.  Short film The Coin by Fabien Martorell, and starring Kathryn and Christopher Lloyd, was screened at the festival last Friday night as one of a selection of American shorts.

Awards were also handed out at the finale, including the ‘Audience Award for the Best American Short Film’.

And the winner was… The Coin.

Congratulations to all involved.

We’ll bring you more about the screening later this week.

Golden Coin Wins In France

fenetre_sur_courts_award_295x160The award winning short film has won an award.  Another one.

poster_002As I originally posted back in January, The Coin was screened last Saturday (5th April) at the south of France-based Avignon International Short Film Festival (known better to locals as the “Fenêtre Sur Courts” Festival International du Film de Court Métrage d’Avignon).

The event proved fruitful for the 9 minute-long movie The Coin as the co-writer and co-producer Fabien Martorell took the prize for his other role as the film’s director.

Congratulations to Fabien and everyone else involved in this project for its continued success.

Next stop (that we know about so far) is the Newport Beach film festival in two weeks time.

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