KKIFF 2023 Awards Night, featuring YB Christina Liew, Minister of Tourism, Culture and Environment Sabah and Ms Jude Day, KKIFF Director presenting an award to our Special Mention – Documentary recipient, Lee Chun Chieh.

The Kota Kinabalu International Film Festival is proud to announce the launch of the PINK10 Filmmaker’s Competition!

This unique competition is opened to all citizens and residents of ASEAN countries (Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Viet Nam), Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

The competition is broken down to three categories, namely:

  • Documentary
  • Narrative
  • Indigenous Language.

Each winner of the categories will receive the prestigious Golden Kinabalu Awards which comes with a trophy and RM3,000 worth of cash.

The 2023 Golden Kinabalu Award trophy

 

Some of important rules of the competition includes:

  1. This competition is open to citizens and residents of ASEAN countries (Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Viet Nam), Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
  2. All films must not be more 10 minutes – including credits. It can be up to 10 minutes.
  3. The film can be any genre (animation, documentary, drama, experimental, horror, comedy, etc).
  4. Language – any language but ALL non-English dialogue films must have English subtitles.
  5. ALL ENTRIES must have English subtitles.
  6. Multiple entries are welcome.
  7. The film you enter must have been completed on or after 15 September 2022.
  8. The film should be entirely your own work.
  9. The KKIFF encourages filmmakers who have submitted entries for Pink10 to attend the festival, especially Awards Night (15 September 2024).  However, the KKIFF is unable to provide a financial contribution for airfares or additional expenses incurred during the festival.

For the full list of competition rules and regulation, as well as submission link, do visit our official PINK10 Filmmaker’s Competition page.