KLEFF 2021 Announces Film Finalists

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September 15th, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – The 14th 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
  1. 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
  1. 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
  1. 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
  1. 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 14th 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

The Film Lineup Of The 14th International KLEFF 2021

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September 3rd 2021, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – The International Kuala Lumpur Eco Film Fest 2021 (KLEFF2021) announces the film lineup for its 14th 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 24th – 30th 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

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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

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