Kathryn Morris UK

The Coin Is Underexposed?

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I thought our short film director (as in he directs short films, not the other thing) du jour had jumped the official gun again in announcing this today (or yesterday due to the time difference to LA). Turns out he didn’t, I just expected this to be officially announced in a few days.

The powerful and award winning short film The Coin will be getting another outing. This time it is at the Underexposed Film Festival in York County. A quick check on Wikipedia reveals nine York Counties, six of them in the USA, so we’ll need to narrow it down further. This is YC in SC, or the eastern state of South Carolina.

This is the second year of the film festival, organised by the Arts Council of York County, and runs from the 14-16th of November (Thursday-Saturday). The venue is the Community Performance Center on East Main St. in the county’s captial of Rock Hill.

The Coin is part of the festival’s “Directors Choice” section. The 8 minute long short being specifically one of 13 films in the set labelled “Narrative”. No word yet on the exact screening schedule. We’ll update you when we can.

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

The Coin Lands Heads Up @ BBLIFF

Fabien Martorell, director of the The Coin, has let us know that his project has won an award!

This weekend’s Big Bear Lake International Film Festival concluded this afternoon (Sunday, 22 Sept) with the Filmmaker Awards Ceremony.

The 8 minute long short drama starring Kathryn, Christopher Lloyd (Back To The Future) and young Jack Ryan Shepherd, won the “Best Short Film – Jury Award” at the event.

Congratulations to all involved.

The photo on the left of Fabien accepting the award is courtesy of the man himself.

Sunday’s Coming Up Short(s)

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Or should that be “upcoming shorts”?

This Sunday (8th September 2013) sees the short film The Coin screened at Los Angeles International Short Film Festival (aka the LA Shorts Fest for… short).

Fabien Martorell’s film is one of seven films in the enigmatically/practically named ‘Program 16’ screening starting on Sunday afternoon at 3:15. It shares that bill with three dramas and a comedy from the USA, and a comedy and a drama from Germany. Some of the many other films to be shown at the festival are grouped under titles such as “Horror Program” and “Song & Dance Program”. Clearly the septet that includes The Coin defy such easy labelling

The Coin; starring Christopher Lloyd (Back To The Future), Kathryn, Will Kemp (Mindhunters) and Jack Ryan Shepherd; premièred at the Palm Springs International ShortFest back in June. Towards the end of this month it will appearing in the line-up of the Big Bear Lake International Film Festival.

The 9 minute long film revolves around the young son (Shepherd) of a stressed mother (Morris) and his encounter with a homeless man (Lloyd) outside a small convenience store. It was shot over a 4 day period in July of 2012.

Check out the film’s trailer and a collection of on set photos (such as the one on the right) in the Gallery.

More details about LA Shorts Fest and all the films being shown are available at the official website.

The Coin @ LA Shorts Fest

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No, it’s not a convention only for those deficient in the trouser/pant* department. Nor does it involve lashing anything to an ‘ort’s fest’, what ever an ort or its fest may be. It’s, and you should probably be sitting down for this, a festival of short films in Los Angeles.

Once again the director/writer/producer of the short film The Coin, Fabien Martorell, has let KM UK know via the modern communication medium that is Twitter that the film has made the selection another film festival. This time it the 17th annual Los Angeles International Short Film Festival.

The Shorts Fest takes place between the 5th and the 12th of September at the Laemmle NoHo 7 theatre in North Hollywood. The exact date of The Coin’s screen(s) is not known at this time. We’ll bring you more when we know it.

You can read more about the LA Shorts Fest the official website. If you’re a local, or a visitor at the time, and are able to attend please let us know what it is like.

Thanks once more to Fabien for contacting KM UK. Best of British to him and all involved.

On the right, and in the Gallery, is a large sized version of the festival’s poster. It has the slogan “Once upon a time, The End.”

* delete as geography dictates

The Coin @ Big Bear Lake Film Festival 2013

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Director/writer/producer Fabien Martorell has let KM UK know via a Tweet that his short film The Coin has been selected for inclusion in this year’s Big Bear Lake International Film Festival.

Big Bear Lake is high (6750ft / 2060m above sea level) in the hills of southern California, north-east of Los Angeles. The annual festival covers all types of films has been running since 2000 and will on a long weekend late in September (Friday 20th to Sunday 22nd).

The complete list of films due to be screened this year will be officially announced in a couple of weeks but Fabien has given us the news early, as he did for the Palm Springs International Film Fest back in June.

The Coin is a short film starring Kathryn Morris and Christopher Lloyd (Back To The Future). It was filmed last summer and is about a young boy meeting a homeless man at a shop. Kathryn plays the boy’s very stressed mother.

You can read more about the Big Bear Lake International Film Festival at the event’s website. If you are able to attend do let us know how it goes.

Thanks to Fabien for letting us know about this news, we wish him and the rest of the cast and crew all the best with it.