Kathryn Morris UK

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.

The Single Side/Layer Of Life

The Sweeter Side Of Life was released on DVD in the United States yesterday (16 July 2013).

The image on the right might be a “3D” shot of the DVD box but the actual product is a lot more one dimensional. Having got hold of a copy of the disc I thought I’d post an update so if you are considering purchase you’ll know what you are getting.

A comprehensive list of the contents of the disc is as follows:

The film

That’s it. Unless you count the main menu and the “scene selection” screens, which I know I don’t. There are no extras. Not even the Special Features video KM UK brought to you two months ago. To be fair, the packaging makes no claims of any extras, and doesn’t even try the common trick of adding the “interactive menus” to a back-of-the-box list of features. The thing is does add is further disappointment.

The DVD is a single-sided/single-layer disc, meaning it has a capacity of 4.2GBytes. The film does fill the available space. Extras would have meant sacrificing some picture quality or go with a more expensive dual-layer disc. This will be the approach taken with the two-films-in-one-box package with Meddling Mom reported on here last month. The only complaint about the picture quality that we are not given the option of a full HD Blu-ray version. What’s the point of using the 4K RED cameras for filming if you are going to shrink that down to standard definition sizes?

So, to sum up: The DVD of The Sweeter Side Of Life contains the film The Sweeter Side Of Life. To quote a higher intellect than mine “That’s all folks!”

The Sweeter Side Of Life DVD Released Today

Just a quick reminder.

The Hallmark TV movie The Sweeter Side Of Life, starring Kathryn and James Best (Roscoe P Coltrane in The Dukes Of Hazzard) is out today (16 July 2013) on DVD in the United States. The film first aired on TV in America back in mid-January.

Those that pre-ordered the disc it could very well have had it delivered this morning.

Details of US online retailers can be found in a previous post and KM UK’s review of the film can be found here.

As you can see on the right we now have a picture of the back of the DVD case. The eagle-eyed amongst you may have spotted the QR code in the lower-right corner of the image. Scanning it will give a URL which eventually takes you to a promo video on YouTube. It is the standard 30 second long trailer we are familiar with.

If you are getting to see the film for the first time remember to come back and let us know what you thought.

Kathryn’s Guest Protocol

Yesterday Johnny Messner (he of soon-to-be-a-double-father fame) Tweeted about a new film project he is working on.

The movie is called The Protocol, it is a short film, and is the first to be produced by Johnny’s own “Johnny Be Goode” production company 😕

Said to star are Max Ryan (Death Race), Xen Sia (Casino Jack, on the right and below with Kathryn), Joel Cavness, Will Crown and one Kathryn Morris (Cold Case). We really can’t imagine how Johnny managed to get such a talented, successful and high profile TV and film star like Kathryn to take the job

Filming has been going on the past couple of days and could very well be continuing today (14 July 2013).

No word so far on what the film is actually about or Kathryn’s role in it. There is a military theme and from the photos there appears to be an interrogation element to it. That falls well within Kathryn’s realm of experience, though she looks to be on the other side of the desk this time.

Various cast and crew have posted on set photos. Thanks and credit to them. We have collated the ones with Kathryn in them and added them to the KM UK the Gallery.

More news when we get it.

Sunday’s Mother Goes Wild

The password has been removed from the online version of the short film Sunday’s Mother so it can now be viewed freely, and you can still do so via the special page on KM UK here.

It has also been posted on the new Defiant Picturehouse (formerly Titan Pictures Media) website.

We’d again like to thank all those connected to Sunday’s Mother for allowing KM UK to be so involved with the project from such an early stage. It was an interesting experience and a privilege.

A set of HD screencaps from the film are now in the Gallery.