[Press Release] Kuala Lumpur Eco Film Festival 2017 Announces Film Submission Results
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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – July 31st 2017 – The 10th International Kuala Lumpur Eco Film Festival 2017 (KLEFF2017) film competition received and accepted a total of 249 environmental films from 44 countries this year.
Out of all the submissions, a total of 84 films of various lengths and genre has been selected by this year’s KLEFF jury committee.
The films will be screened over a week of this year’s KLEFF from 23-29 October 2017 at the Black Box, Publika.
A film screening schedule will be announce soon and the public are encourage to book their tickets through the official KLEFF website. Latest announcements will be announced on the website and its official Facebook page.
The synthesis of this year’s submission of films can be viewed below based on genre of films and country of origin.
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Film Submissions by Categories
Selected Films by Categories
Submission by Location
| Australia- 9 | Hungary- 1 | Romania- 1 |
| Austria- 1 | India- 12 | Russia- 1 |
| Belgium- 2 | Indonesia- 2 | Singapore- 4 |
| Brazil- 3 | Islamic Republic of Iran – 7 | Slovakia- 2 |
| Bulgaria- 1 | Italy- 6 | South Afrika-1 |
| Cambodia- 1 | Japan- 2 | Spain- 3 |
| Canada- 11 | Kazakhstan-1 | Sweden- 1 |
| Chile- 3 | Kosovo- 1 | Switzerland- 4 |
| China- 3 | Malaysia- 62 | Taiwan- 1 |
| Dominican Republic- 2 | Mexico- 1 | Ukraine- 2 |
| Finland- 2 | Myammar-2 | United Arab Emirates- 1 |
| France- 12 | Netherlands-2 | United Kingdom- 13 |
| Germany- 13 | Panama- 1 | United States- 46 |
| Greece- 1 | Philippines- 1 | Yemen- 1 |
| Hong Kong- 1 | Poland-1 | Unspecified – 1 |
List of Selected Films
*Disclaimer: The jury committee has selected 84 films to be screened this year at the festival. The decision made by the jury committee is final. We truly appreciate your understanding and support on this matter.
Feature Film / Full Length (in alphabetical order)
Total films: 9
| Film Title | Film Maker | Country |
| A Bridge Between Two Worlds | Pascal Gélinas | Canada |
| Big Pygmies, Little Giants | Howard Jackson | Singapore |
| Bison Nation-Walking Sacred Sites | Elke Duerr | United States |
| Empathy | Ed Antoja | Spain |
| King In The Mountain | Dave Edwards | United States |
| Longyearbyen, a bipolar city | Deiller Manuel | France |
| Soft Water Hard Stone | James Lloyd and Flavia Angelico | Brazil |
| The girl and the typhoons | Christoph Schwaiger | France |
| ZAN | Richard Grehan | Japan |
Short Documentary (in alphabetical order)
Total films: 33
| Film Title | Film Maker | Country |
| A Simpler Way | Michael Snyder | United States |
| An Ocean Mystery: The Missing Catch | Alison Barrat | United States |
| Burning Issue | Luca Bonaccorsi | Italy |
| Cotton Fields from the Ivory Tower | Faisal Hossain and Non Fiction Media | United States |
| Crocodile Creek | Sai Naw Kham | Germany |
| Giraffes: Africa’s Gentle Giants | Tom Mustill | United Kingdom |
| Green Transitions | Maria Martiniakova | Slovakia |
| Green: at what price? | Nicola Milne | United Kingdom |
| Immondezza | Mimmo Calopresti | Italy |
| Keep The Coast On Your Left | Andrew Szabo | United States |
| Lake Victoria: An Ecosystem in Turmoil | Benj Binks | Australia |
| Lessons From Disaster | Nor Haffizah binti Razak | Malaysia |
| My Garden, No Longer | Scott Schimmel | United States |
| Operation Sumatran Rhino | Chris Annadorai and Lydia Lubon | Singapore and Malaysia |
| Our Forests, Our Future | Zyn Myo Sett | Myanmar |
| Poachers to Protectors | Stephanie Theresa | Malaysia |
| Reaching Blue: finding hope beneath the surface | Ian Hinkle and Andy Robertson | Canada |
| RESURGENCE : Restoring life and hope to a barren land | Ankit Sharma | India |
| Root Up | Katia Cafe-Febrissy | Canada |
| Sao Miguel, Water Island | Carlos Virgili | Spain |
| Solidarity and the Art of Sustainable Lobster Fishing | Steve De Nee | Canada |
| Straws | Linda Booker | United States |
| Streams of Plastic | Gary Bencheghib | France |
| The Art of Nature : A documentary of Orang Asli’s archaic crafts | Nurhakim Sulaiman | Malaysia |
| The Complex | Thiago Foresti | Brazil |
| The Conservation Conversation | Kah Jing Ong | Singapore |
| The Master Weaver | Borneo Art Collective | Malaysia |
| The Pale Horse – Coral Apocalypse | Hendrik S. Schmitt | Germany |
| The Stolen River | Kristina Danka | United States |
| The Thinking Garden | Christine Welsh | Canada |
| The Wildtuin | Rebecca Panovka | Switzerland |
| Through Asli Eyes | Jordan van Praag Curzon | United Kingdom |
| Tubbataha: A National Treasure | Don Falsario II | Philippines |
Short Film (in alphabetical order)
Total films: 25
| Film Title | Film Maker | Country |
| Arrested (Again) | Dan Goldes | United States |
| Cycles | Hansel Ureña Espósito | Dominican Republic |
| CYCOLOGIC | Emilia Stålhammar | Sweden |
| Desire | Vanessa Cara-Kerr | Germany |
| For Her | Y.M. Raja Ahmad Shah | Malaysia |
| It’s Not Over | Huang Wei Ying | Malaysia |
| Losing Nature | Khai Bahar | Malaysia |
| Mas Afuera: Expedition to Selkirk Island | Patricio Mekis and Mateo Barrenengoa | Chile |
| More than a tree | Khin Myanmar | Germany |
| Poco a Poco | Kyle Buthman and Perry Gershkow | United States |
| Rain in Sahara – Black Water | Lain Heringman and Ankan Sunuwar | India |
| Save Her. Save Us. Save Me | Muhajir Anuar | Malaysia |
| SAVE ME! (Amidst the Trees) | Mohsen Nabavi | Collaboration between Iran & Malaysia |
| Spirit Tiger | Kent Truog | Cambodia |
| Swimming in the Desert | Alvaro Ron | United States |
| TABLES TURNED | Melissa Fredericia | Malaysia |
| The Discarded | Annie Costner and Carla Dauden | United States |
| The Elephant In Our Room | Elroi Yee | Malaysia |
| The Swan | Jonas Karasek | Slovakia |
| The Velvet Abstract | James Hughes | United Kingdom |
| Tomorrow’s Tale | Thinesh Muniandy & Isaac Abdul | Malaysia |
| Types of Pollution In Real Life | Ling Bick Hang | Malaysia |
| Until The Last Drop: Makwekwe’s Journey into the Future of Lake Turkana | Katja Becker and Jonathan Happ | Germany |
| Value of Life | Natasha Despotovic and Alexandra Tabar | Dominican Republic |
| Water Warriors | Michael Premo | United States |
Animation (in alphabetical order)
Total films: 5
| Film Title | Film Maker | Country |
| “…ity” (IDENTITY) | Marcela Lopez Pazos | Chile |
| Karma | Zhaoyu Zhou | United States |
| Now You See It | Rebecca Manley | United Kingdom |
| Pet Man | Marzieh Abrarpaydar | Islamic Republic of Iran |
| Thunder Head Clearing | John Teton | United States |
Public Service Announcement (PSA) (in alphabetical order)
Total films: 12
| Film Title | Film Maker | Country |
| Air Pollution | Ng Ee Qing | Malaysia |
| Australia’s Gardens of Stone | Joel Robinson | Australia |
| Change Is Now | Wong Jin Xian | Malaysia |
| Every Drop Counts | Jasmine Zaidi | Malaysia |
| Heaven Or Never | Ooi Zhang Xun | Malaysia |
| Identity | Ivan Jaripio | Panama |
| If Earth Was A Human | Aaron Koh Boon Winn | Malaysia |
| Messages From The Ocean | Low Jin Theng, Ng Jia Hui & Chow Jing Xuan | Malaysia |
| Save Energy, Save The Earth | Joanne Cheong Jia Hui & Chan Shu Qi | Malaysia |
| Still . Leaking | William Kok | Malaysia |
| Today’s Special | Madina Berkenova | Malaysia |
| Trash | Cheng Yee Wai | Malaysia |
We would like to congratulate the film makers whose films were selected to be screened in KLEFF 2017!! We are grateful for the film makers who supported KLEFF 2017 through your inspiring and educational films. We are grateful to have you participating in this film festival and look forward to more films in next year’s KLEFF.
The films have been reviewed by a panel of judges and winners will be announced at the official KLEFF2017 Awards Ceremony, scheduled on 27th October 2017 at 3:00PM at Black Box in Publika Shopping Gallery, Solaris Dutamas, Kuala Lumpur.
This year’s 10th KLEFF jury committee and judges are Azuan Muda (co-founder of TEEBTV), Dr Nurul Salmi (senior lecturer from Universiti Sains Malaysia), Al Jafree Md Yusof (scriptwriter for Paloh and P.Ramlee The Musical) and Fadly Bakhtiar (KLEFF festival director).
You can check out the panel of judges in KLEFF 2017 here and they will be attending the film festival, so do grab the opportunity to meet them there in October.
For more information about the Kuala Lumpur Eco Film Festival or its organizer, EcoKnights, please contact info@kleff.my
About the Kuala Lumpur Eco Film Festival (KLEFF)
The KLEFF is run and organized by local environmental NGO, EcoKnights. Now in its tenth year, the goal of the festival is to provide the Malaysian community with environmental films, workshops, talks, forums, discussions, and eco-vendors in an effort to improve awareness for environmental issues. The KLEFF2017 is supported by a variety of corporate sponsors, NGO’s, vendors, media outlets, and members of the public. Detailed information about the KLEFF, along with a complete list of sponsors and partners, can be found on their website www.kleff.my
About EcoKnights
EcoKnights is a not-for- profit environmental organization with the Malaysian Registrar of Societies. Founded in 2005 by Yasmin Rasyid, the organization focuses on community based environmental education and awareness projects that help Malaysians to understand and deal with environmental issues that affect them. EcoKnights offers a variety of programs for the community including Sentinels of Time photography competition, Knights of Nature Sustainability Camp, Anugerah Hijau youth competition, and the Kuala Lumpur Eco Film Festival (KLEFF), which is now in its 10th year. EcoKnights also provides community films screenings, organizes environmental talks and workshops, and provides consultation and programming for environmental corporate social responsibility efforts.
For more information about EcoKnights and their programs, visit their website at www.ecoknights.org.my