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The Coin Goes Off Piste

falun2015_logo_180x180That’s not what I said!  Read it again :-)

Bit out of nowhere this one.

Fabien Martorell’s short film The Coin yesterday started a series of nightly screenings at an event running alongside the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2015, currently being held in the Swedish city of Falun.

Falun is about 115 miles (180km) north west of Sweden’s capital Stockholm.

When you have a big thing like a world championship taking part in a region you need to entertain the many visitors during the time they are not watching the sport.  Cultural festivals, concerts etc. are often put on do just that.

The Bryggcaféet café in Falun has teamed up with the Peace & Love Film Festival to host the screening of a short film festival each evening from 6pm.  With The Coin there are six other films from around the world, including Smog Journeys from China and Matthew Modine’s Jesus Was Commie.  The screenings continue until the end of the championships on the 1st of March.

Thanks to Fabien for dropping this bombshell early on a Saturday morning :-)

Information about the short films on the official website P&LFF website HERE.

21st February 2015 | Category: Festival, Film, News, The Coin | Leave a comment

A.I. Artificial Intelligence – Tonight BBC1

ai_10And when I say tonight I mean the night of Thursday, the 19th of February 2015.

It’s nearly 14 years since A.I. Artificial Intelligence was released.  Difficult to believe it has been that long but we still don’t have intelligent, talking teddy bears or life-like robots.  Hoverboards haven’t quite made it either, despite Back To The Future II predicting that we would all be riding them by 2015.  Come on geeks!  Where’s our hoverboards?!?!

Speaking of intelligent ideas and things coming back from the past… Neat segue hey?

The British Broadcasting Corporation is honouring its audience with a viewing of A.I. Artificial Intelligence tonight at 11:45pm.  It’s been granted an upgrade to BBC1 too, having been shown on BBCs 2 and 3 the last few times.

The recent release, in parts of Europe at least, of the Alex Garland (28 Days Later…) movie Ex Machina has seen A.I. mentioned quite a lot.  Like Ex Machina, it too asks questions about our possible relationship with artificial intelligence technology in the future.  For those not familiar with Ex Machina I was surprised to just find out that it will not be out in the USA for several more months.

For those not aware Kathryn makes an all too brief appearance as a performer at a sort of circus in the middle of the film.

Details can be found on the BBC’s website here.

Screencaps and a video clip of Kathryn’s performance in A.I. can be found in the Gallery.

19th February 2015 | Category: A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Film, Media Alert | Leave a comment

The Coin Is Speechless

speechless_film_festival_logo_180x180No, The Coin, the short film by Fabien Martorell, has not been turned into a silent movie.  Though, having said that, it could work as one.

I was aware this news was coming but Fabien let the cat out of the bag a little earlier than expected.  It’s festival week on KM UK!

In this case ‘speechless’ refers to the Speechless Film Festival, which is held in the city of Mankato, Minnesota.  Mankato is around 70 miles (115km) south of Minneapolis.  One of its claims-to-fame is featuring in the TV series Little House On The Prairie as a nearby trading town.

The remark above about The Coin possibly working as a silent film is not a throw-away one.  The focus of the Speechless Film Festival is communication via the visual medium of film, regardless of the language used in any dialogue.  Fabien’s strong imagery should serve his short film well.

This, the 3rd annual SFF, is scheduled to take place over two days in the latter half of March.  More details as we get them.

Information about the festival can be found on the official website HERE.

12th February 2015 | Category: Festival, Film, News, The Coin | Leave a comment

Short. Sweet. April Shower

short_sweet_film_fest_cleveland_937x861Mere hours after yesterday’s post about the non-appearance of the ‘Short. Sweet. Film Fest‘ event over the weekend there was a break.  Announcements have been made.

A coincidence?  I’ll leave that for you to decide.

The festival has been moved to the 10th-12th April of this year and it will be held in the new ‘Alex Theater At The 9’.

‘The 9’ is a re-development of the former Ameritrust complex in Cleveland, Ohio.  Finished last September the site now contains apartments, offices, a hotel and various entertainment venues, including the Alex Theater.  In fact the number of different elements totals… wait for it… 8… and that one :-)

Details of the ‘Short. Sweet. Film Fest’ schedule are not yet available, so we don’t know exactly when you’ll be able to see The Coin, but there is plenty of time for that.

Tickets for the festival are available via the official website HERE.

11th February 2015 | Category: Festival, Film, News, The Coin | Leave a comment

Short. Sweet. F.A.

short_sweet_film_fest_cleveland_937x861Two weeks ago I posted that another screening of the short film The Coin was pending.

Writer/director/producer Fabien Martorell had told us that his long-running 9 minute production was to be shown at the ‘Short. Sweet. Film Fest’ in Cleveland, Ohio.

The information at the time was the the event would take place over the weekend just gone, the 6-8th of February.

However, there was some evidence that the festival had been moved to a similar long weekend date in early April.  It wasn’t clear though.

With the initial dates having now passed us by I think it is safe to say that the ‘Short. Sweet. Film Fest’ was a no-show in February.  It’s one thing for a film to not make it, but a whole festival?

Hopefully things will become clearer as the alternative time arrives and the good burghers of Cleveland will get their chance to see Kathryn, Christopher Lloyd (Deadly Games) and the (not so) young (now) Jack Ryan Shepherd in action.

KM UK will of course bring you more details when we can.

We now return you to your normally scheduled…

10th February 2015 | Category: Festival, Film, The Coin | Leave a comment
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