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 […]
The KKIFF is delighted to announce its line-up of World Movies to be screened at MBO Imago Mall from 22-29 July. We have movies from 9 countries: Germany, Denmark (for the first time), Brazil, Italy (also for the first time), Argentina, Georgia, France, Spain and New Zealand (again, for the first time!). So travel around […]
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.
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 […]
KOTA KINABALU: The Kota Kinabalu International Film Festival (KKIFF) which will be held from July 7 to 16 this year is entering its ninth year, Festival Director Jude Day said. This year KKIFF has introduced the Narrative, Documentary and Indigenous Language category and five awards will be presented to the best of entries, Day told […]
We have Malaysian films opening and closing our festival and these are both ‘must-see’s: Redha, about a family with an autistic child, and the world premier of Mencari Rahmat, a sophisticated black comedy. With 27 movie from 18 countries, there is something for everyone. So travel around the world, learning how people love badly, get […]
Theme: Create a buzz‘ Length: Up to 10 minutes Categories Short film – documentary Short film – narrative Short film – indigenous language* Judging Criteria: Good story-telling, originality and creativity – in all 3 categories Golden Kinabalu Awards: 2 awards will be made for each category: SABAH TOURISM GOLDEN KINABALU AWARD Plus RM2000 – documentary […]
Date: 15 – 16 July 2017 What is it? Sabah Pitching Training & Awards is a platform for filmmakers from the ASEAN region, Korea & Taiwan to launch new feature-length documentary film projects (60 mins plus). Participants learn how to pitch and then make a pitch to a jury in order to get funding to […]
Making a documentary or a narrative Date: 9-16 July 2017 in KK What is it? 4 teams of participants from Malaysia working with mentors from Europe, the USA, Korea and Malaysia make either a 10-minute documentary OR a 10-minute narrative film. Participants apply individually to be in either a documentary or narrative team. Documentary teams […]
Movies by ASEAN, Korean & Taiwanese Filmmakers CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – this is out of competition Focus for 2017: EAST MEETS EAST Screenings: 7-14 July 2017 Time: 4.00pm and 8.00pm Venue: MBO Imago Mall Entrance: RM10 * Deadline for submissions: 10 March 2017 Submission Guidlines Submissions can be made by citizens and residents of ASEAN […]
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 […]