SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, June 4 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The documentary feature ‘Delikado’, by Karl Malakunas, has won the Brote award at FICMEC Adventure, a section of the Canary Islands International Environmental Film Festival (FICMEC) dedicated to travel, sports and adventures in the environment, which concluded its fourth edition this Sunday in Buenavista del Norte (Tenerife).
The FICMEC Adventure jury made up of filmmaker Juan Carlos Moreno, researcher Tania Ouariachi and ornithologist Beneharo Rodríguez also awarded a special mention to the feature length documentary ‘Into the Ice’, by Lars H. Ostenfeld.
‘Delikado’ shows “the struggle of a group of environmental activists, makes the viewer participate in a real tension through direct and subjective photography,” said the jury when explaining the reasons for its assignment. Moreno, Ouariachi, Rodríguez value “the struggle of these people to protect a place as emblematic as El Nido from the irrational exploitation of natural resources and urban speculation. Unfortunately, this type of conflict between tourism development and conservation of natural resources appears in many places on the planet, without going any further than in the Canary Islands”.
The award-winning documentary is the first feature film by its director, Karl Malakunas, an Asia-based filmmaker and journalist who for two decades has covered environmental issues, natural disasters and political upheavals. After living eight years in the Philippines, where he worked as the Manila bureau chief for the French news agency AFP, Karl has drawn on his contacts and deep knowledge of the country to make this film as a fellow of the Sundance Institute Documentary Program.
For its part, the jury made a special mention of the documentary ‘Into the Ice’ “for bringing to the general public the adventures of a group of scientists who are trying to find out how glaciers work in the face of global warming, that is, the future of The humanity”. The feature film shows how the future climate of the planet can be forecast by looking at the Greenland ice sheet.
