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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