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Delikado
by Karl Malakunas
Documentary | 94 min | 2022 | Philippines
Language: English, Filipino
Subtitles: English
SCREENING SCHEDULES
- Date:
- Location:
- September 29, 2024
- Baseco, Tondo, Manila
- (With i_space and Youth for Better Baseco)
ABOUT THE FILM
LOGLINE
DELIKADO follows environmental defenders Bobby and Tata of the Palawan NGO Network Inc and former El Nido mayor Nieves. They risk their lives in David versus Goliath-style struggles, stopping politicians and businessmen from destroying the Philippines’ “last ecological frontier”.
FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
- Cinemalaya 2022, Manila, Philippines
- Melbourne International Film Festival 2022, Melbourne, Australia
- Special Jury Mention: Best International Feature, Doc Edge Festival 2022, Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand
- Sheffield DocFest 2022, Sheffield, UK
- Sustainable Future Award, Sydney Film Festival 2022, Sydney Australia
- MountainFilm 2022, Telluride, USA
- Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2022, New York, USA
- Special Jury Prize: Best Documentary Feature, Asian Pacific Film Festival 2022, Los Angeles, USA
- HotDocs 2022, Toronto, Canada
- Special Mention: Best Documnetary Feature, Asia Pacific Screen Awards
- Best Longform Documentary, Walkley Awards for Excellence in Australian Journalism
- Nominee, Outstanding Investigative Documentary, EMMY’s
ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS
Karl is a filmmaker and journalist who has been based in Asia—covering environmental issues, conflict, natural disasters and political upheavals—for two decades. Karl is the Asia-Pacific Deputy-Editor-In-Chief for Agence France-Presse based in Hong Kong. He is a Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program Fellow and a recipient of the SFFILM Vulcan Productions Environmental Fellowship. After living in the Philippines for eight years while working as Manila Bureau Chief for AFP, Karl has drawn on his experiences, contacts and deep inside knowledge of the country to make DELIKADO, his first feature film. His environmental reporting around the world has included covering the 2015 UN Climate Change Conference in Paris, the aftermath of Super Typhoon Haiyan in the eastern Philippines, and the coal-powered rise of China’s economy.
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