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September 15^th, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – The 14^th International Kuala Lumpur Eco Film Fest 2021 (KLEFF 2021) has announced that 94 films have been selected to be screened virtually in the festival. Out of the submitted films, 20 films made it to be the finalists of the 5 main film categories of KLEFF 2021.

The 5 main film categories are Best Feature Film/Full-Length Documentary, Best Short Documentary/TV Documentary, Best Short Film, Best Public Service Announcements (PSA), as well as Best Animation.

Below are the finalists for the 5 main film categories of KLEFF 2021:

1. Best Feature Film / Full-Length Documentary Award (In Alphabetical order)

Film Title	Film Maker	Country
50 Shades of Green: The Complex Story of Palm Oil	Khayriyyah Mohd Hanafiah, Andy Siti Nurhidayah Rahim	Malaysia
CLIMATE FOR CHANGE: Renewing Energy	Shanmuga Sundaram	Singapore
CO2? CO-Nee!	Joep van Dijk	Netherlands
Day Zero	Kevin Sim, Virginia Quinn	United States
Once Upon A River: Bangladesh’s Delta Disaster	Shehzad Hameed Ahmad	Singapore

2. Best Short Documentary Award (In Alphabetical order)

Film Title	Film Maker	Country
A Community Under Fire	Harrison Thane, Matt Thane	Australia
For Tomorrow Paradise Arrives	Anna Hints	Estonia
Growing Solutions	Leo Horrigan	United States
The Naked Arctic Adventure	Paula Miquelis	Singapore

3. Best Short Film Award (In Alphabetical order)

Film Title	Film Maker	Country
Alles hat Grenzen NUR DER MONDFISCH NICHT	Sylvia Eckermann, Gerald Nestler	Austria
Birthplace	Sil van der Woerd, Jorik Dozy	Malaysia
Day zero	Shubham Pandav	India
Djibril’s Forest	Thomas Ceulemans	Belgium

4. Best Animation Award (In Alphabetical order)

Film Title	Film Maker	Country
Blinded By Love	Yige Yang	United Kingdom
Pongo the Stolen Orangutan: How Law Can Heal	Colin Systma	United States
The Fourfold	Alisi Telengut	Canada
It’s Not The Oil, It’s The Practice	Zul Ikhwan Aziz	Malaysia

5. Best Public Service Announcement Award (In Alphabetical order)

Film Title	Film Maker	Country
A Community, Fighting	Zoe FitzPatrick	Ireland
Gardener of the Sea	Mok Man Ying	Malaysia
The Seed	Mauro Altschuler	Argentina

The 14^th Kuala Lumpur Eco Film Fest committee would like to congratulate the finalists of each categories of KLEFF 2021!

This year’s 12th KLEFF jury committee and judges are Fadly Bakhtiar, Festival Director of KLEFF 2020 and Programme Director of EcoKnights; OKJ, Singapore-based documentary storyteller of OKJWorks; Dr. Kendy Mitot, artist of the indigenous Bidayuh tribe in Sarawak; and Aore Ajoeni, technical officer and head of the research team in Klima Action Malaysia (KAMY).

For more information about the Kuala Lumpur Eco Film Fest or its organizer, EcoKnights, please contact info@kleff.my.  or the festival manager, Nabila at nabila@ecoknights.org.my. For KLEFF partnership and collaboration, you may reach our KLEFF Festival Director at fadly@ecoknights.org.my.

ABOUT THE KUALA LUMPUR ECO FILM FEST (KLEFF)

The International KLEFF is Malaysia’s first and longest-serving platform promoting sustainable living through showcases of environment-themed films, workshops, talks, exhibitions, Impact Market, local performances and other engaging activities. Organized by EcoKnights, KLEFF features groundbreaking films that kindle important dialogues, traversing the relationship between humans and their environments, challenging the way people think about the natural world and inspiring them to discuss, explore and act on important environmental issues. For more information about KLEFF, kindly visit its official page at kleff.my and for more current updates, find us on Facebook at @KualaLumpurEcoFilmFestival and Instagram and Twitter at @kleff_my.

ABOUT ECOKNIGHTS

EcoKnights is an environmental non-governmental organization (NGO) registered with the Registrar of Societies Malaysia. EcoKnights’ core focus areas are in environmental education; smart partnerships; strategic engagement and on-ground efforts as well as capacity building of youths. In these areas, EcoKnights focuses on working with key stakeholders to deliver strategically designed developmental interventions, further contributing to positive social, environmental and economic change. More information about EcoKnights can be obtained from www.ecoknights.org.my. For more current updates on what EcoKnights is up to, find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter at @EcoKnights.

For media enquiries, please contact:
Fara Amina Othman,
Digital Content Officer of EcoKnights,
fara@ecoknights.org.my / 011 – 23210492

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September 3^rd 2021, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – The International Kuala Lumpur Eco Film Fest 2021 (KLEFF2021) announces the film lineup for its 14^th edition, continuing its festival committee EcoKnights’ effort in creating platform for sustainability communication and education via audio-visual tools.

The festival received a total submission of 136 environmental films from 39 countries this year, whereby the festival received the most submissions from its home country – Malaysia. Entering its second time as a digital film festival with the belief that films can be screened beyond limits via the festival’s digital screening platform, KLEFFlix, 94 films have been selected to be screened this year. Other than films that tells spectacular stories under the festival’s theme ‘Climate Change Yourself’, the festival will also screen films that focus on a spectrum of sustainability topics, thus having an myriad of interdisciplinary stories that voice out the 3 pillars of sustainability – environment, social and economy.

From 24^th – 30^th October, KLEFF 2021 will be happening virtually at 3 platforms – KLEFFlix, International Greentech & Eco Products Exhibition & Conference Malaysia (IGEM) 2021 and the Malaysian Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai.

Congratulations to the following selected films that will be screened in KLEFF 2021 (in alphabetical order):

50 Shades of Green: The Complex Story of Palm Oil	Discovering Langkawi with Irshad Mobarak – The Forest of Limestone	OSHIKA – Winds Of Change	Ticino, a source of biodiversity
A Community Under Fire	Discovering Langkawi with Irshad Mobarak – The Littoral Forest; Life At The Edge	OUR 4°C-ABLE WORLD	tripleF***
A Community, Fighting	Discovering Langkawi with Irshad Mobarak – The Magnificient Machinchang Forests	Painting By Numbers	Voices of the River
A Coral’s Journey from Reef to Lab	Discovering Langkawi with Irshad Mobarak – The Misunderstood Fig Tree	Pepperwood: Rising From The Ashes	W.W.W.W.W
A journey of 1000 miles starts with a single step	Discovering Langkawi with Irshad Mobarak – The Mysterious Mangrove	Pewén: The Earth will say	We Are Nature
A River Reborn	Djibril’s Forest	Poisoned Soil	Will You Hear Us
A Whale’s Worth	DOKUMENTARI BURUNG WALIT	Pongo the Stolen Orangutan: How law can heal	WORLD OF VIRUSES
Active (citizen)	DOKUMENTARI SAMPAH	Pushed up the Mountain
Alles hat Grenzen NUR DER MONDFISCH NICHT	Emerald Forest – Return of the Tigers	Refugio
As Organism (Episode 1/ BrainDagger Films Presents: Knowledge is Good)	Episode 1: Project PULIH: Mending Broken Reefs	ROADS TO OUR HERITAGE
Bablu From Babylon	Epoch	ROADS TO OUR HERITAGE EP 2
Baghjan Reels	Eternal Harvest	Seaturtle watcher
Barricade	Extracted: Shimulala	Shoulders Deep
Birthplace	For Tomorrow Paradise Arrives	Spring
Blinded By Love	Forest Hymn for Little Girls	Symbiosis
Cabo Verde – Island Jewel	Gaachh : The Tree	Terraform
Chimney of Death	Gardener of the Sea	The Bamboo Bridge
CHOUETTE	Growing Peace in the Middle East	The Broken Garden of the Sea
CLIMATE FOR CHANGE : Renewing Energy	Growing Solutions	The Circle of Life
CO2? CO-Nee!	HERBA AKAR GALAK	The Fourfold
Convergence	IFANG	The Green Amendment: New Mexico, Part One
Cracked	In the name of the Olive	The Land of Griffons
Day Zero	It’s not the oil, it’s the practice	The Naked Arctic Aventure
Discovering Hydrogen	May they Fly	The Secrets of Wild Honey
Discovering Langkawi with Irshad Mobarak – A Walk Around Datai Bay	Messages from the Animals: Otter Love	The seed
Discovering Langkawi with Irshad Mobarak – Adaptability; Lesson From Nature	Midang Midang	THE SHAMANS´ NIGHTMARE
Discovering Langkawi with Irshad Mobarak – In Balance with Nature	Netejant la Terra / Cleaning the Earth	The Weather Diaries
Discovering Langkawi with Irshad Mobarak – Passages Through Time	Not Sinking, Swarming	The Whale from Lorino
Discovering Langkawi with Irshad Mobarak – The Fabulous Flying 5	Once Upon A River: Bangladesh’s Delta Disaster	They Keep Quiet So We Make Noise

KLEFF 2021 film competition finalists and film screening schedule will be announced in late September. Tickets for screening will be open for sale in early October.

For more information about the Kuala Lumpur Eco Film Fest or its organizer, EcoKnights, please contact info@kleff.my.  or the festival manager, Nabila at nabila@ecoknights.org.my. For KLEFF partnership and collaboration, you may reach our KLEFF Festival Director at fadly@ecoknights.org.my.

ABOUT THE KUALA LUMPUR ECO FILM FEST (KLEFF)

The International KLEFF is Malaysia’s first and longest-serving platform promoting sustainable living through showcases of environment-themed films, workshops, talks, exhibitions, Impact Market, local performances and other engaging activities. Organized by EcoKnights, KLEFF features groundbreaking films that kindle important dialogues, traversing the relationship between humans and their environments, challenging the way people think about the natural world and inspiring them to discuss, explore and act on important environmental issues. For more information about KLEFF, kindly visit its official page at kleff.my and for more current updates, find us on Facebook at @KualaLumpurEcoFilmFestival and Instagram and Twitter at @kleff_my.

ABOUT ECOKNIGHTS

EcoKnights is an environmental non-governmental organization (NGO) registered with the Registrar of Societies Malaysia. EcoKnights’ core focus areas are in environmental education; smart partnerships; strategic engagement and on-ground efforts as well as capacity building of youths. In these areas, EcoKnights focuses on working with key stakeholders to deliver strategically designed developmental interventions, further contributing to positive social, environmental and economic change. More information about EcoKnights can be obtained from www.ecoknights.org.my. For more current updates on what EcoKnights is up to, find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter at @EcoKnights.

For media enquiries, please contact:
Fara Amina Othman,
Digital Content Officer of EcoKnights,
fara@ecoknights.org.my / 011 – 23210492