Kathryn Morris UK

The Coin To Be At Enfoque, Puerto Rico

This weekend (11-12th Oct) The Coin gets two screenings on the west coast of the United States. See here for more details on that. Now we’ve found out that the short film will be heading about as far east as it can whilst staying within the US, sort of.

screenshot_001 Puerto Rico, located in the Caribbean, is an “unincorporated territory” of the United States, one of a dozen or so islands in the Pacific and the Caribbean that are designated that way. These territories are controlled by the US government but are independent from certain constitutional elements.

In November the Enfoque International Film Festival will be taking place at the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (Arts Museum) in the San Juan region situated in the north east corner of the island. The Enfoque (Spanish for “approach”) festival was first held 5 years ago.

The exact schedule has not been released yet but The Coin is one of 45 films to be shown in the 3 day event running across Thursday the 13th to Saturday the 15th of November. The festival’s website is here.

Thanks to Fabien Martorell for letting us know about this.

The photo above shows part of the Castillo San Felipe del Morro, a 16th century citadel on the the northern tip of the San Juan coast line. It has been a World Heritage Site for a couple decades and attracts millions of visitors per year.

Cold Case Cast Catch-up – September-ish 2014

john_finn_001_430x180 Turns out my research for the September 2014 CCCC-up was a little lacking.

I could have waited until the next edition at the end of October but, in this case, it would have been too late. So, I thought I’d sneak in a special ‘September-ish’ update.

In July I posted the latest news about the Irish drama An Bronntanas which stars John Finn (John Stillman in CC). After being originally filmed as a TV drama series for broadcast early this year, it was turned into a feature length film for showing at the Galway Film Fleadh. Then, a 5 part showing was planned for the Xmas holiday period. That is what I had in mind when I quickly checked to see if John had any new projects in the pipeline for CCCC-up September 2014. An Bronntanas was ignored.

Something made me look into An Bronntanas again in the past couple of days and I found, much to my surprise, that the broadcast has been brought forward to late October. The Irish-language channel TG4 will start the series on the 23rd of this month at 9:30pm. See the TG4 website for details.

An Bronntanas (which translates as ‘The Gift’) is about the crew of a lifeboat who, on answering a distress call in a storm, discovering an abandoned boat containing a body and a large haul of drugs. This creates a lot of dilemmas and issues within the small community.

My slightly more thorough investigations turned up a trailer for the show on YouTube. John appears towards the end of the video. It looks like he is playing a police office. Typecasting hey? 😉

I must do proper research…

The Coin’s Big Weekend

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It’s a big weekend for a short film.

A quick reminder for those in the Los Angeles area in the coming days. The 9 minute epic The Coin will be screened at two different film festivals less than 12 miles and 25 hours of each other.

On Saturday (11th Oct) the Sunscreen Film Festival (West) takes place in South Bay, California. The Coin and 8 other short films will be shown at the Hermosa Beach Community Theater, 710 Pier Avenue, Hermosa Beach, from 12:15pm in a group interestingly labelled: ‘Families These Days’. Full details on the SFF website here.

The very next day the more confidently named San Pedro International Film Festival will be screening The Coin in the less imaginatively titled ‘Short Takes 3’, which is made up of 7 films. The event is taking place at the Grand Annex, 434 West 6th Street, San Pedro, from 1 o’clock. See the SPIFF website here.

As you all know The Coin stars Kathryn as a stressed mother to a young son. Christopher Lloyd of Back To The Future fame plays a homeless man who talks to the boy when he needs a friend. French-born, LA-domiciled Fabien Martorell directed, co-wrote and co-produced the short.

Cold Case S03E21 – The Hen House HD Screencaps

We reach the final edition of KM UK’s Summer Of HD for 2014.

Over the past few months I’ve been posting new HD (720p or 1080p) screencaps from season 3 of Cold Case. Rather than the usual numerical order, this year episodes were grouped into threes randomly for voting on by you dear reader. The winner of each poll was then the next chosen. Once the full set had been gone through the losing episodes were again put to the polls. This was repeated until all were exhausted.

The upshot of the voting process is that this final posting could be seen as being about the least popular episode of the season. I’m sure that’s not true really.

The Hen House is about the murder of a journalist in 1945, days after the end of World War II. Lorena “Lo” Kinney was keen to succeed in the very male-dominated world of the press. No parallels with Lilly then? A current day journalist finds files which include a threatening note written to Miss Kinney on the day she was died, hit by a train as it went through a station.

The late Peter Graves (Airplane and Mission Impossible) in one of his final roles guest starred as modern day Noah, a man Lo falls for. But is Noah all he seems? Playing the “I recognise the big guest star from other shows” game we quickly surmise that Peter is more than just a bit part player in this one.

118 HD (720p) Lilly screencaps from The Hen House are now the Gallery.

I hope you’ve enjoyed this run of postings. If you make use of any of KM UK’s screencaps in fan art then please let me know, perhaps we can include them in our Gallery at a future date.

The Coin Timing At Sunscreen Film Festival

sunscreen_film_festival_731x934 It looks like the two film festivals happening in neighbouring areas of Los Angeles on the same long weekend have had a quick chat and arranged not to wear the same outfits. Awkwardness avoided!

The Sunday before last we were able to note the screening time of the short film The Coin at the San Pedro International Film Festival (SPIFF), in Los Angeles. That happens on Sunday the 12th.

The Sunscreen Film Festival (SFF), which takes place over the same three days in South Bay, just a few miles to the north-west of San Pedro, announced its schedule last week.

Either by luck or judgement the SFF will be screening The Coin on Saturday the 11th, in a narrative shorts block of 9 films under the collective banner ‘Families These Days’. The event starts at 12:15pm at the Hermosa Beach Community Theater, 710 Pier Avenue, Hermosa Beach, California. Tickets are around $9 each. They, and more details, can be found (eventually) on the official website here.

One of the other films on the bill with The Coin is called The Story Of Milo & Annie. Among the cast is Cathy Moriarty, probably best known for her role as the Cruella De Vil-style character in Casper.