Kathryn Morris UK

The Coin On At Hyart Film Fest Today

A quick reminder for those in, or very soon to be in, Wyoming USA you can can see the short film The Coin today at the Hyart Film Festival.

‘Today’ presumes you are reading this on the 19th of May 2015, preferably before 7pm Mountain time (that’s UTC – 6 currently).

The Friday screenings at the Hyart Theater, Lovell, WY, start then and consist of nine short films. One of them is The Coin, which, as you know, stars Kathryn as a stressed mother who takes her young son (Jack Ryan Shepherd) to a shop. Whilst left to his own devices the boy meets a homeless man (Christopher Lloyd).

Amazingly I’ve been posting about The Coin for nearly three years now. July of 2012 is when the news broke of Kathryn’s role. It was mentioned as a small aside in a piece about director/writer/producer Fabien Martorell’s starting work on another film. Two years ago, almost to the day, the 9 minute work première Palm Springs International ShortFest. Since then it has been screened at more than a dozen festivals around the world. And there’s almost certainly more to come.

Kathryn @ Scooby-Doo Première 2002

When I did one of these looks at a past public appearance by Kathryn back in early March it was from the première of Minority Report. The Tom Cruise-led film is over 13 years old!

That gave me an opportunity to expand the piece by mentioning the planned Minority Report TV series. The cast for a pilot was being assembled. Since then the Fox network has taken up the option and commissioned a full season. It starts on US television this autum/fall in a Monday at 9pm slot.

We’ve still got our fingers crossed for Kathryn reprising her role as Lara Clarke, the estranged wife of Tom’s John Anderton. Not sure how they could shoehorn in a guest spot for such a character but you never know.

Which brings me to today’s post. It may be about Kathryn at the June 2002 première of the live action (with lots of special effects of course) Scooby-Doo movie starring Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy The Vampire Slayer) and her husband Freddie Prinze Jr. (She’s All That) as Daphne and Fred of Mystery Inc.

“But why the waffle about Minority Report?” I hear you say. The boy very sensibly making sure he keeps hold of Kathryn in the newly added photos is actor Dominic Scott Kay, 6. Dominic appeared in the film as Sean, the young son of Lara and John who separated due to the emotional turmoil of his disappearance. The film premièred just a couple of weeks after this event so this was their chance to get in some extra publicity by turning up together. Or, Kathryn needed an excuse to go and watch the film and knew a boy that she could take as cover 😉

Dominic’s acting career continued with guest roles in things like NCIS and House and he even wrote and directed his own short film which starred Kevin Bacon. More recently Dominic has concentrated on music and auditioned for The Voice

A small collection of small images have been added to the event album in the KM UK Gallery.

The Coin’s Hyart Film Fest Timing

Since my post on Monday information on the schedule of screenings at the the Hyart Film Festival have been released.

There isn’t a great deal of detail but there is probably everything you need to know at such an event.

The opening night is next Thursday (18th May) and it looks like it is ‘sci-fi night’, possibly ‘spoof sci-fi night’. RZ-9 might be a serious feature length movie. Israeli short film Schnitzel, tagline ‘A boy, a girl, a space-alien and fried chicken’, definitely isn’t. Phoenix could go either way. Doors open at 7pm.

Friday night is shorts night. I said ‘shorts’ not ‘shots’ 😉 Starting at 7pm the evening is made up of nine short films from around the world. Not surprisingly this is where The Coin features.

The Perfect Guy Posters

Over the weekend a couple of posters for The Perfect Guy surfaced. Other news caused me to delay posting until now. The lack of Kathryn (but not Morris ) in them made them a lower priority too.

For the sake of completeness the two large-sized variants are now in the KM UK Gallery HERE.

The Coin @ The Hyart Film Festival

You would think it was spent (geddit?) by now but The Coin continues its attempt to break the world record for the greatest number of film festival appearances

As has become the usual for Fabien Martorell has let us know that his short film, starring Christopher Lloyd (Roger Rabbit) and Kathryn, will be screened at another festival.

This time it is the Hyart Film Festival in Lovell, Wyoming USA. The event’s name comes from the theater used to host it. The building has a very distinctive turquoise frontage and a large sign as seen in the festival’s logo (see pic on the left).

Wyomingites don’t have to wait very long because the film festival starts Thursday-week, the 18th of June, and runs for three days.

As of going to press the screening schedule has not been published. I’ll let you know when we have more news.