Delikado
by Karl Malakunas • 2022 • 56’, 91’ • USA • English, Tagalog
Credits
Director:
Karl Malakunas
Producers:
Marty Syjuco
Michael Collins
Kara Magsanoc-Alikpala
Within the idyllic Philippine tourist destination of Palawan, forests and wildlife are being destroyed by illegal loggers and President Duterte’s cronies. Despite extreme mortal danger, a small troop of environmental crusaders risk their lives to catch the culprits in the act and prevent the thieving and destruction of their homeland.
Awards & Festivals
Award: Special Jury Mention
— LA Asian Pacific 2022
Tim Hetherington Award [Nominee]
— Sheffield International Documentary Film Festival 2022
Sustainable Future Award
— Sydney Film Festival 2022
Special Mention
— Asian Pacific Screen Awards 2022
Best Documentary
— Walkley Award 2022
Shortlisted
— IDA Awards 2022
Best Feature Film
— Newburyport Documentary Film Festival 2022
Green Spike Award
— Valladolid IFF 2022
Green Dog Award
— Watch Docs: Human Rights in Docs 2022
William W. Warner Beautiful Swimmers Award
— Environmental Film Festival 2023
IMPACTE! Award to Human Values
— IMPACTE!·Human Rights Film Festival of Catalonia 2023
News & Documentary [Nominated]
— Emmy Awards 2023
FICMEC Adventure Best Film
— The International Environmental Film Festival of the Canary Islands 2023
Grand Prize
— Blue Planet Future Festival 2023
Award: Jury Special Mention
— BIFED - Bozcaada International Festival of Ecological Documentary 2023
Hot Docs 2022 [World Premiere] — In Competition
CAAMFest 2022
Mountainfilm 2022
DocEdge 2022
Sydney Film Festival 2022
Human Rights Watch FF New York 2022
Melbourne International Film Festival 2022
Dokufest 2022
Cinemalaya 2022
Visioni dal Mondo 2022
DMZ International Documentary Film Festival 2022
Take One Action 2022
Inconvenient Films 2022
DOK Leipzig 2022
Guelph Film Festival 2022
Hawaii International Film Festival 2022
Terraviva Film Festival 2022
Aldeburgh Film Festival 2022
International Bastau Documentary Film Festival 2022
Solidarity Human Rights Film Festival 2022
FIPADOC 2023
Budapest International Documentary Festival 2023
Human Rights Watch Film Festival San Diego 2023
Friends of the Earth Malta 2023
HIFF Hana Hou Festival 2023
Human Rights Watch FF London 2023
One World Int'l Human Rights Film Festival 2023
ZagrebDox 2023
Riviera International Film Festival 2023
Doxa Documentary Film Festival 2023
Dear Future Festival Zukunftsgestalten 2023
Earth Focus Environmental Film Festival 2023
Ecofalante Environmental Film Festival 2023
Seoul Eco Film Festival 2023
CinemAmbiente Environmental Film Festival 2023
Darwin International Film Festival 2023
Le Grand Bivouac Film Festival 2023
Another Way Film Festival 2023
Peloponnisos International Documentary Festival 2023
Globale Mittelhessen Film Festival 2023
Greenmotions Film Festival 2023
Filmmaker’s Biography
Karl Malakunas 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.