Kathryn Morris UK

The Coin Takes The Prize In Paris

The 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.

The Scarborough Film Festival By Tianna

Last weekend saw a screening of the short film The Coin at the Scarborough Film Festival in Canada. Tianna, one of KM UK’s long-standing regulars, attended the event and saw the film. She very kindly agreed to write about the experience for us. Thank you Tee.

So, without further ado I’ll leave you in the capable hands of Tianna.

By Tianna

Scarborough Film Festival, Toronto, Ontario, Canada – June 2014

Good afternoon! My name is Tianna; I’m a 20 year old broadcast media student from Toronto, Canada. I’ve been a Kathryn Morris fan for about 8 years and a member of KMUK for 5 years. RichE asked me to write about my recent experience as a volunteer at the 2nd annual Scarborough Film Festival!

This festival featured 30 films from over 20 different countries and was supported by local and national businesses and associations. The Prime Minister of Canada even sent his well wishes for the festivals success! And a success it was! We had hundreds of people attend film screenings from June 3rd – June 8th!

As you may have heard, a short film called “The Coin” featuring Kathryn was featured. Director Fabien Martorell submitted his 9 minute short and I happened to be volunteering the night it was screening. I was able to sneak away and watch Kathryn on the big screen with my popcorn in hand!

As far as the film goes, it was pretty much everything you see in the trailer. Kathryn’s character scolding her young son while driving to the store. When they pull in to the parking lot, she shouts at the child to remove his seatbelt. After looking into the boys fearful eyes, Kathryn glances into the rearview mirror and internally reflects on her behaviour with such a sadness in her eyes – It was truly moving. As if not to let her guard down and show the boy her vulnerable side, she snaps at him once more to exit the car. The rest, as you’ve seen in the trailer, is the homeless man (Christopher Lloyd) comforting the the child and giving him a “magical coin” to remember he is not a bad boy, but a good one!

Overall the film was really sweet and showed a very different side of Kathryn’s acting capability! Hopefully soon the film will be made available for the rest of you to see!

Thanks again to Tianna.

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The Coin In Paris On Friday

Another film festival reminder.

From a non-French speaking part of Canada to an area well known for its usage of the French language… France (obviously).

Today (11th June) marks the start of the Champs-Élysées Film Festival. It is running until next Tuesday (the 17th) in various venues on or near the famous road in Paris.

Fabien Martorell’s short film The Coin gets a second-home screening (because Fabien is French) on Friday (13th) evening at the MK2 Grand Palais, which is near to the Place de la Concorde.

Unlike the recent Scarborough Film Festival where they took the slightly unusual step of pairing it with a feature film, the CE Film Festival is showing The Coin with 5 other American short films in a screening starting at 8:45pm. The six are in competition under the “American Selection, Non School-Related” banner (aka the “Courts Métrages Américains (Hors écoles)” in French). American film schools, such at the AFI, get their own section.

Not quite sure how this fits into that “American” theme but one of that rival quintet is a short called Insomniacs by Charles Chintzer Lai, which is set is London and co-stars the English rose Imogen Stubbs (who I haven’t seen anything for far too long).

The official Champs-Élysées Film Festival website HERE (now available in English) has all the info you could possibly want.

Do You Know The Way To San… Antonio?

Short film The Coin is heading South for the summer as it has been selected to be shown at the San Antonio Film Festival which is held, surprise surprise, in San Antonio, Texas.

screenshot_001 The festival runs from Monday the 28th of July for a full seven days until Sunday the 3rd of August.

A schedule has not yet been released so we can’t yet say when The Coin will be shown. I’ll bring you more on that when it happens.

What we do know is that Fabien Martorell’s 9 minute long film will be sharing the billing with 40 other shorts. There are also an impressive 22 feature films announced to be shown. I’ve not had a chance to go through the list so I don’t know if any are premières.

At this point I’d link to the festival’s official website HERE and say it has more details, but there is not a lot there about the 2014 festival at the time of writing.

Thanks again to Fabien for letting us know about this.

Any Texans out there that might go along?

The Coin @ Scarborough Film Fest On Saturday

A quick reminder for our friends in the East of Canada with a penchant for film.

The short film The Coin which stars Kathryn and Christopher Lloyd (Who Framed Roger Rabit) Scarborough Film Festival this weekend. Based in an area of Toronto, Ontario, the festival started on the Tuesday just gone and continues until Sunday.

Fabien Martorell’s 9 minute production will be shown at the Fox Theatre on Queen Street East in a double bill with a feature filmed called Macondo. The show starts at 7pm on Saturday, 7th June.

Be there. Or be elsewhere doing something else. It’s up to you. It’s your life. I can’t tell you what to do. I’m not your mother… or am I? *

Full details of the second running of the Scarborough Film Festival can be found on the event’s website HERE.

* To clear up any confusion: I am not your mother.