Kathryn Morris UK

I know what you’re thinking: “it’s been ages since we heard about The Coin appearing at a new film festival.”

Well, worry no more 

When I first read Fabien Martorell’s message letting us know (thanks to him) about this my mind, not surprisingly, headed ‘down under’.  I was all ready to make references to the 2018 Commonwealth Games, sun, sea and sand.  The initial research into the Gold Coast International Film Festival didn’t immediately disabuse me of this idea.  Then I saw the address.

The Gold Coast in question is a nickname for the northerly coast of Long Island, USA, not the one Queensland, Australia.  With all due respect to the residents of New York state I’m guessing that they are not quite the same.

I am also going to go out on a limb and suggest that the weather in the north east of America in early November will not the same as the east coast of Australia at the same time.  Surfers Paradise vs snowman’s delight 

The GCIFF will be taking place at the Great Neck Arts Center, Great Neck, New York over the course of the first full week in November.

As we’ve become used to at this stage the exact details of the film festival are not yet finalised so we’ll have to update you nearer the time.  Check out the official event website here.

Stop me if you’ve heard this one…

For the fourth day in a row we have news regarding Fabien Martorell’s (thanks to him again) short film The Coin featuring in a film festival.  This time it is the Saint Cloud Film Festival in Minnesota, in the north of the United States.

This is all proving to be quite a geography lesson for me.  I’d never heard of St Cloud.  It sounds like an unusual place name but it turns out there’s quite a few of them around, including one in the neighbouring state of Wisconsin.  You live and learn.

Anyway, the 4th annual St Cloud Film Fest is happening in early October.

Despite tickets being on sale already there is, so far, no detail available on the screenings or much on other films that will feature.

I will certainly update you as soon as possible.  In the mean time you can see the event’s website here.

Ever get the feeling of déjà-vu?  Is it supposed to happen after just a few hours?

The Sunscreen Film Festival takes place in South Bay, Los Angeles.  This is just to the north-west of the San Pedro area of Los Angeles mentioned last night.  The SFF is taking place over three days in mid-October.  The same three days as the San Pedro Film Festival.  Do these festivals never talk to each other? 

The Coin; which as you know stars Kathryn and Christopher Lloyd and was written, directed and produced by Fabien Martorell; has been selected to be screened at the SFF.

At time of going to press (or should that be ‘pressing Go’?) no schedule of events or list of films to be screened has been published by the SFF so we will have to wait.  I’ll update you all at a later date as the info becomes available.

In the mean time you can peruse the event’s official website here.

Thank you, yet again, to Fabien for telling us about this.