Kathryn Morris UK

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.

A Time For Heroes Celeb Carnival 2005

The title of this occasion (or at least part of if) seemed a fitting follow-on from the anniversary marked yesterday of the 9/11 tragedies. We should not forget that events like those are not just about those lost, but those that acted heroically in putting others first.

Of course, this particular charitable event we are looking at today was not about that day in September 2001.

‘Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation A Time For Heroes Celebrity Carnival’ is an annual event to raise funding and awareness for the cause of HIV and AIDS in children, focusing mainly on Africa and India. Founder Elizabeth Glaser herself contracted HIV during a blood transfusion and unknowingly passed it on to her children. Discovering that the then current treatments were solely aimed at adults drove her to set up the Pediatric AIDS Foundation. Elizabeth spent the rest of her life advocating for the issue.

You can read more about the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation on their website HERE.

Back in June of 2005 Kathryn attended the Time For Heroes event. Formal attire was clearly not required Not that Kathryn looked anything other than gorgeous in her more casual jeans, t-shirt, cardy and sneakers 😉

This is one that has been missing from the KM Gallery since its inception. We’ll put that right today in some style with a small collection of photos and a couple of videos now in the Gallery.

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.

Kathryn @ MPTF Events 2012-13

The recent update of the Official KM website brought to light a couple of public appearances by Kathryn that had got by us all. The occasions themselves passed with little note by the wider press too, perhaps overshadowed by the main events they are linked to. No information, such as basic when and where, was given about the two photos. KM UK can fill in the blanks for you all.

The website captioned the photo you can see on the left “Babies’ First Premiere!” It is amazing how many errors you can make in just three words. The apostrophe was right though, so score one for punctuation. Kathryn in her golden dress was at the annual MPTF “Evening Before The Primetime Emmy Awards” event. In 2012 it was held on 21st of September. So… not a première, and as it was 11 months ago the “babies” part is a bit of a stretch too.

Moving on to number two, eyes right. This is from another MPTF event, this one is called “Night Before the Oscars”. It is also an annual event held before a big awards ceremony. This year the Oscars were on Sunday the 24th February so this appearance was on the 23rd.

The MPTF, or Motion Picture & Television Fund is a charity aimed primarily at helping members of the entertainment industry who fall on hard times. Unlike many professions TV and movie jobs, both in front of an behind the camera, are short term and lacking access to health care schemes available through employers. You can read more about the work of the MPTF on their website here.

The pre-Emmy and pre-Oscar event photos are now in their respective albums in the Gallery.

I’ll sneak in one other quick update, which would have been more appropriately posted in yesterday’s photoshoot addition. It’s one more photo from what we call the “Official website photoshoot”. A larger version of the image you see on the right has now joined its own kind in the Gallery.

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