Delikado has been nominated for an Emmy Award!
Delikado has been nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Documentary.
What a smashing validation of the legendary, inspirational land defenders of Palawan!
The film team would like to thank the massive team around the world who came together to create Delikado. And in particular right now our supporters and partners at PBS, POV and ITVS for believing in Team Delikado from the early days, and bringing the heroic feats of Palawan NGO Network Inc. and Nieves Cabunalda Rosento all the way across the Pacific and onto American TV screens.
Join the campaign to #DefendtheDefenders to stand up against corruption, defend human rights and support the fight to protect our planet.
The documentary categories of the News & Documentary Emmy Awards will be presented at the Palladium Times Square in New York City on 28 September, 2023.
DELIKADO IN THE PHILIPPINES
Delikado premiered in the Philippines as the closing event of Cinemalaya Film Festival at the Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila, in August 2022.
The 1500 strong audience had an incredible reaction to the film, especially given our heroes, Bobby, Tata and Nieves, were in the audience along with all of the para-enforcers featured in the film and their families. Our heroes received a heroes welcome, just as they deserved.
If you would like to host a screening of Delikado in the Philippines or elsewhere, please go to our Host a Screening page to register your interest.
The Delikado film team is building an impact campaign around the film, to help land defenders in the Philippines and around the world. Read more here.
Video of the highlights of Delikado’s Philippines premiere
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
Delikado has been inspiring audiences all over the world, screening at a series of international film festivals in Toronto, New York, LA, Sydney, Sheffield, Auckland, Melbourne and Edinburgh, among others.
The film has received great reviews from audiences and critics alike. Here is a list of some of Delikado’s film-related achievements to date:
Winner of Sustainable Future Award at Sydney Film Festival 2022
Best Documentary at Newburyport Documentary Film Festival 2022
Special Mention in the Best Documentary category at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards 2022
Shorlisted for International Documentary Association Best Feature Documentary for 2022.
Karl Malakunas, Delikado’s Director and Producer, won the Walkley Documentary Award at Australia’s most prestigious journalism awards in 2022
Winner of both Best Documentary and Best Cinematography in the Social Impact Media Awards 2023
Winner of the William W. Warner Beautiful Swimmers Award at DCEFF 2023
Shortlisted as Philippines’ entry to the Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film 2023
Nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Documentary 2023
Book your tickets for upcoming festival screenings HERE
NEWS AND REVIEWS
“Delikado is a timely environmental thriller on how corrupt corporate and political interests are swallowing small Indigenous communities across the globe by diminishing their resources and limiting their power, one tree at a time.”
— Ravi Srinivasan, Hot Docs
"Delikado is an emotionally moving film that shows how environmental protection is not just a one-dimensional issue. It involves political corruption, human rights, intergenerational justice, and the narratives and motivations that drives ordinary people to do extraordinary actions."
— John Leo C. Algo, Rappler
“Delikado is a hell of a film….Shot like a thriller…..Be prepared to get angry.”
— Steve Kopian, Unseen Films
“The film, powerful in its message and devastating in its truth, has followed me around since the day I watched it”
— Morven Mackay, Take One Action
“Delikado is an important and powerful film. The tension is palpable throughout … but so is the incredible courage of the environmental defenders portrayed.”
— Luciana Tellez-Chavez, Researcher, Environment and Human Rights Division, Human Rights Watch
“Malakunas and team have provided a documentary we must all simply watch. What exactly your nationality is will not matter….its implications leap over physical boundaries and national borders, trespassing into a realm that, fortunately, still binds so many of us today – an environment where everything on which our fate tenuously rests is tied together, teetering and on the brink of collapse."
— Red Constantino, ABS-CBN
“Delikado offers a breathtaking insight into what it means to be an environmental activist in the Philippines today”
— Paola Mottura, director of the Documentary Film Fund, The Sundance Institute
“Australian journalist Karl Malakunas’s investigation often feels more like a combat film than an environmental documentary, as we accompany the activists on raids of illegal loggers, some of who are armed.”
