AWARDS NIGHT – KKIFF 2017 – list of winners A. BUZZ10 FILMMAKERS’ COMPETITION NARRATIVE CATEGORY Silver Kinabalu Award – Masoud Soheili (Indonesia) for HEAVEN OF CHILDREN – sponsored by SPArKS Golden Kinabalu Award – Kubendera M.S. Mahadevan (Malaysia) for SI TOMMY – sponsored by Kopi Cap Kuda Citation: For portraying a sensitive issue, and that […]
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Get RM5 off your rides to and from Suria Sabah on Sunday, 16 July 2017. Get it now… Promo Code: KKIFFAWARDS
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All the things you must know about this year’s festival. Download KKIFF 2017 Festival Guide (PDF 3MB)
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KKIFF 2017 – this is our 9th festival. It’s happening from 9 to 29 July 2017. Check-out below for a glance of what’s going on during KKIFF 2017.
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Thanks to everyone who has submitted a film to the KKIFF 2017 or applied for the Sabah Film Academy. We’re very excited to have had over 40 movies submitted for CINEBALU. We’ve selected 18 to be screened at MBO Imago Mall from 22-29 July. Watch this space for the programme! The BUZZ10 Filmmakers’ Competition officially […]
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The Sabah Film Academy is honoured to be able to present our mentors for the SFA 2017. Narrative Al Jafree Md Yusop, Director Jafree began his career as a scriptwriter. He wrote the film Paloh for director Adman Salleh and the stage musical P. Ramlee The Musical for Enfiniti Production. His directing career started with […]
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What a wonderful time at INTI College, Kota Kinabalu talking to Business students about the KKIFF! So fantastic to have the students helping with the festival guide this year! Thanks to the INTI staff for making us so welcome. And thanks to Yap Cheen Boon, Kopi Cap Kuda, for bringing us together.
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Valentine’s Day, 14 Feb, was also when the KKIFF 2017 was launched at a press conference in KK. We were delighted to have our special guests: Datuk Philip Lasimbang (Chairman, Board of Trustees, Kadazandusun Language Foundation), Ms Moira David (Senior Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Resource Development & IT), Datuk Deddy Borhan (Advisor, Creative Industry Sabah […]
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Congratulations to Cha Escala for winning a grant of 15,000,000 Korean dollars as a result of her pitch in Korea for her new feature-length documentary. At the KKIFF 2016, Sabah Pitching Training & Awards, Cha won a place to pitch at the DMZ Docs Fund, part of the 8th DMZ International Documentary Film Festival. Congratulations […]
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Award Receiving Film Title Director ACTION10 Filmmakers’ Competition 1 JuiceSky People’s Award Trophy & Cert Avakas the Head Hunter Marc Abas 2 Special Mention Certs 1 The Pursuit 2 Daisy 1 Fadhlin Sakina Abdullah 2 Katak Chua 3 Jury Award Cert The Ghost King Chong Voo Kiat 4 Santola Café Award – Best Sabahan Entry […]
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4.00pm Xingu Brazil | 102 mins | 2012 | Action, adventure, biography Director: Cao Hamburger Synopsis: XINGU was inspired by the real life story of the Villas brothers Orlando, Claudio and Leonardo. They decide to live a great adventure and enlist in an expedition which has the mission to tame Central Brazil. This movie covers […]
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4.00pm Will there be a theatre up there?! Georgia | 55 mins | 2011 | Documentary, history Director: Nana Janelidze Synopsis: The Soviet Union – and the tragic destiny of people who lived in this system is reflected in the biography of the great actor Kakhi Kavsadze. He is one of Georgia’s most popular actors […]
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