Kathryn Morris UK

Back in the latter part of January we brought you news of the short film The Coin‘s first foray abroad.

The petit movie had been chosen as an official selection at the “Fenêtre Sur Courts” Festival International du Film de Court Métrage d’Avignon.  That’s the Avignon International Short Film Festival.  Avignon in France.

The festival organisers have recently released an initial (subject to change) schedule of proceedings so we can make an early attempt to narrow down which of the three days The Coin will be screened on.

The festival runs from April 4th to the 6th, with events running from 9am on the Friday to 7:30pm on the Sunday.  Our little-movie-that-could starring Christopher Lloyd (Piranha 3DD), Kathryn and young Jack Ryan Shepherd, gets it airing in the prime-time slot on the Saturday afternoon.

As part of ‘Competition 4’ starting at 2pm The Coin will be screened with six other short films.  They are mostly French films, with one Spanish entry.  Because our friend the writer/director/producer Fabien Martorell is French his film is listed as being ‘French/USA’ 

Fingers crossed for another award.

You can read more details on the festival at the Fenêtre Sur Courts website (it’s in French of course).

Apologies to all (especially the French amongst you) for any attempted puns 

It has taken a few weeks but we finally get to break in the new year with some new news.

The short film The Coin will be breaking free of its US-based appearances at a new film festival in April.

The Fabien Martorell written/directed/produced-film is, according to a recent Tweet by the man himself, one of the official selections for the “Fenêtre Sur Courts” Festival International du Film de Court Métrage d’Avignon.  Excuse my poor translation but that is something like: “Window on Short” Avignon International Short Film Festival.  Hopefully one of our French readers will be able to do a better job of that and help with any additional translation as required.

As we’ve seen before it looks like Fabien has jumped the gun (or should that be “Guns” based on his current project?) as no specific details about the films showing at the festival or the schedule have been released yet.  As the festival, which will be in only its third year in 2014, happens over three days in early April it will likely be a few weeks from now before we know more.

Often such film festivals have a variety of categories so it would be no surprise to see The Coin screened in the International Film category.  The irony being that ‘friend of KM UK’ Fabien is French.

Congratulations to all involved on the project receiving even more recognition.

PS.  At the time of writing a US quarter (25 cents, US$0.25) is currently worth around 19 euro cents (€0.19).