Green Dox

Delikado

Karl Malakunas
Screening time  
31.03. / Friday, 15:30 - 17:30 Theatre 3  

Delikado follows three magnetic leaders of the network of environmental crusaders and vigilantes, as they risk their lives trying to stop politicians and businessmen from destroying the Philippines’ “last ecological frontier”. It is a timely film emblematic of the struggles globally for land defenders as they are being killed in record numbers trying to save natural resources from being plundered by corporations and governments. It is also a unique expose of President Rodrugo Duterte’s "war on drugs" in the Philippines, which has claimed thousands of lives. Delikado shows the drug war is used as a tool for politicians to control the levers of economic and political power. The film offers a story of courage and resilience to inspire others into action.

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Karl Malakunas

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.

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Delikado

Great Britain, USA, Australia, Hong Kong, Philippines
2022, 94'

Directed by:
Karl Malakunas

Screenplay by:
Laura Nix, Michael Collins, Karl Malakunas

Cinematography:
Tom Bannigan

Edited by:
Michael Collins, Eric Daniel Metzgar

Music:
Nainita Desai

Producers:
Marty Syjuco, Michael Collins, Kara Magsanoc-Alikpala, Karl Malakunas

Produced by:
Thoughtful Robot Productions, ITVS, POV

Festivals & Awards:

Hot Docs (2022), Los Angeles Asian Pacific FF (2022), Caamfest (2022), Human Rights Watch FF (2022), Mountainfilm (2022), Doc Edge (2022), Sydney FF (2022)