Kathryn Morris UK

I’ve been trying to work out with a link between a coin and the beach to me an amusing subject line for this reminder of The Coin‘s Saturday screening at the Newport Beach Film Festival.  So far I’ve failed.  I just keep coming back to the memory of grandparents giving me some money to buy an ice-cream whilst on the next family holiday to the seaside.

Anyhoo.  As I covered before, the short film is part of a programmed called ‘Short Connections’ made up of 7 films in a 90 minute event.  It takes place in a venue called The Triangle on Harbor Boulevard, Costa Mesa, California.  Show starts at 3:45pm.  The city of Costa Mesa is in Orange County (that’s the O and C in The O.C.).  Ain’t Wikipedia useful

KM UK wishes all those showing films at the NBFF the best of luck, especially friend-of-the-site Fabien Martorell and his cast and crew.

The official NBFF website HERE has all the details.

In mid-May the world famous Cannes Film Festival takes place.  This year the 11 days of madness ends on the same day as the the equally famous Formula 1 race at Monaco.  Lots of film stars will be adding to the clamour/glamour on the grid that Sunday.  Not sure if that is by accident or design.  With Bernie Ecclestone in charge you should take nothing for granted.  With his money he makes things happen his way.

Speaking of money, cars, the south of France and film festivals…  (Now that’s a segue!)

As reported previously Fabien Martorell’s short film The Coin has been selected for screening at the Avignon International Short Film Festival, or as it is known more locally the “Fenêtre Sur Courts” Festival International du Film de Court Métrage d’Avignon.

Avignon is inland, 50 miles (85km) north-west of the coastal city of Merseille.  It’s around 100 miles (160km) west of Cannes, which is itself 20 miles (32km) west of Monaco.

The festival starts today (Friday, 4th April) but The Coin will be shown tomorrow at 2pm in a bill of seven films under the title of ‘Competition 4’.  Could there be a prize in the offing?

For writer/director/producer Fabien it is something of a homecoming (though I don’t think he will be present) as he is French by birth, but lives in LA these days.

If you happen to find yourself in the south of France this Saturday, pop along to the festival and let us know what it was like.

You can read more details on the festival at the Fenêtre Sur Courts website (in French).

A quick reminder of the upcoming screenings of The Coin at the Cleveland International Film Festival, as reported last month.

Starting tomorrow (Thursday, 20th March) the short film by director/writer/producer Fabien Martorell will be shown four times in the early days of the event.  Each time it will be shown alongside other short films.  2:15pm on Thursday and 5:10pm on Friday sees the ‘Shorts Program 4’ screenings.  Saturday and Sunday, 14:30 and 09:20 repectively, it switches to the ‘Hollywood Shorts Program’.

An interesting sounding short called Dog Food starring Amanda Seyfried (Mama Mia!) is one the seven films in the ‘The Hollywood Shorts Program’.  Putting the two descriptions “a butcher loses his dog” and “a self-employed butcher gets an interesting dinner invitation” together with the title and, well, you can draw your own conclusions…

In Cleveland this week and weekend?  Going to CIFF?  Let us know if get to see The Coin.  Details of the CIFF can be found on the official website.