Kathryn Morris UK

C.U. At C.I.F.F.?

A quick reminder of the upcoming screenings of The Coin at the Cleveland International Film Festival, as reported last month.

Starting tomorrow (Thursday, 20th March) the short film by director/writer/producer Fabien Martorell will be shown four times in the early days of the event. Each time it will be shown alongside other short films. 2:15pm on Thursday and 5:10pm on Friday sees the ‘Shorts Program 4’ screenings. Saturday and Sunday, 14:30 and 09:20 repectively, it switches to the ‘Hollywood Shorts Program’.

An interesting sounding short called Dog Food starring Amanda Seyfried (Mama Mia!) is one the seven films in the ‘The Hollywood Shorts Program’. Putting the two descriptions “a butcher loses his dog” and “a self-employed butcher gets an interesting dinner invitation” together with the title and, well, you can draw your own conclusions…

In Cleveland this week and weekend? Going to CIFF? Let us know if get to see The Coin. Details of the CIFF can be found on the official website.

Sometime For The Centime, Franc-ly

Back in the latter part of January we brought you news of the short film The Coin‘s first foray abroad.

The petit movie had been chosen as an official selection at the “Fenêtre Sur Courts” Festival International du Film de Court Métrage d’Avignon. That’s the Avignon International Short Film Festival. Avignon in France.

The festival organisers have recently released an initial (subject to change) schedule of proceedings so we can make an early attempt to narrow down which of the three days The Coin will be screened on.

The festival runs from April 4th to the 6th, with events running from 9am on the Friday to 7:30pm on the Sunday. Our little-movie-that-could starring Christopher Lloyd (Piranha 3DD), Kathryn and young Jack Ryan Shepherd, gets it airing in the prime-time slot on the Saturday afternoon.

As part of ‘Competition 4’ starting at 2pm The Coin will be screened with six other short films. They are mostly French films, with one Spanish entry. Because our friend the writer/director/producer Fabien Martorell is French his film is listed as being ‘French/USA’

Fingers crossed for another award.

You can read more details on the festival at the Fenêtre Sur Courts website (it’s in French of course).

Apologies to all (especially the French amongst you) for any attempted puns

The C.O.I.N. At The C.I.F.F. – Update

This one ~~won’t~~ shouldn’t show up my limited foreign language skills, unlike the last one

In a late night (for those of us this side of ‘the pond’) Tweet the writer/director/producer of the intriguing short film The Coin let it be known that his film will be screened at the Cleveland International Film Festival (CIFF) in March. That’s Cleveland, Ohio in the USA.

Speaking of ‘ponds’ (it will become painfully clear in a moment) this, the 38th running of the CIFF, will open with a gala screening (i.e. expensive cinema ticket + after party) of British film Not Another Happy Ending. The romcom stars leggy, red-headed ex-Doctor Who assistant Karen Gillan. Still not with me on the ‘pond’ thing? Karen played Amy Pond in Doctor Who.

The Coin, which stars Christopher Lloyd (Back To The Future) and Kathryn, is scheduled to be shown three times over the course of the 12-day long festival, all in the early days. Starting on the second day (2:15pm, Thursday, 20th March) as part of the ‘Shorts Program 4’, a 90 minute screening with 5 other films. That is then repeated on the Friday a little later in the day (5:10pm).

On the Saturday (22nd March) The Coin is shown again, this time alongside 6 other films as part of the ‘Hollywood Shorts Program’ at the Hanna Theatre at 2:30pm.

Check the CIFF website for all the ‘when, where, why and how?’ details. If you are able to attend the event let us know how it goes.

Congrats to all involved in The Coin on being selected again and thanks to Fabien for letting us know.

Update: A second showing of the ‘Hollywood Shorts Program’ has been added on the Sunday (23rd) morning at 9:20am.

The Coin Exchanged For Euro

It has taken a few weeks but we finally get to break in the new year with some new news.

The short film The Coin will be breaking free of its US-based appearances at a new film festival in April.

The Fabien Martorell written/directed/produced-film is, according to a recent Tweet by the man himself, one of the official selections for the “Fenêtre Sur Courts” Festival International du Film de Court Métrage d’Avignon. Excuse my poor translation but that is something like: “Window on Short” Avignon International Short Film Festival. Hopefully one of our French readers will be able to do a better job of that and help with any additional translation as required.

As we’ve seen before it looks like Fabien has jumped the gun (or should that be “Guns” based on his current project?) as no specific details about the films showing at the festival or the schedule have been released yet. As the festival, which will be in only its third year in 2014, happens over three days in early April it will likely be a few weeks from now before we know more.

Often such film festivals have a variety of categories so it would be no surprise to see The Coin screened in the International Film category. The irony being that ‘friend of KM UK’ Fabien is French.

Congratulations to all involved on the project receiving even more recognition.

PS. At the time of writing a US quarter (25 cents, US$0.25) is currently worth around 19 euro cents (€0.19).

The Coin Slot Exposed

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As promised last week here are the details of The Coin’s screening at the Underexposed Film Festival, York Country, South Carolina.

The Coin is being shown with ten other short films in a groups called “Narrative”. Fabien Martorell’s film is also one of the festival Director’s Choice.

The film festival starts this coming Thursday (14 November) and runs through to Saturday (16 November). Saving the best to (almost) last the “Narrative” set is to be screened on the Saturday between 7pm and 9pm, with The Coin the 3rd in a final set of six after the intermission. The venue for this, the second year of the festival, is the Community Performance Center on East Main Street, in the state capital Rock Hill. It is only $6 a ticket. The awards ceremony follows the “Block F” screening.

The Underexposed Film Festival should really considering sticking the word “International” in there somewhere because the event includes films from all over the globe. As well as the USA there are films from Serbia, Turkey, Australia, India, the UK, Canada, Germany, Iceland, Spain, Iran, France, Romania, and Austria.

There is quite a list of stars from big screen and television in the films too. Elijah Wood (Lord Of The Rings) and Alia Shawkat (Maeby Fünke in Arrested Development) star together in Setup, Punch. Christopher Lloyd (Spin City) features, along with fellow repeatee Elijah Wood, in a second film being shown called The Narrative of Victor Karloch. Amongst the others I recognise is TV drama Perception guest star Scott Wolf in Imagine (he played Rachael Leigh Cook’s character’s ex-husband).

Good luck to all those taking part in the festival.

If you are in Rock Hill on Saturday and make the screening please let us know your thoughts.

More details about the Underexposed Film Festival can be found on their website HERE.