Kota Kinabalu International Film Festival (KKIFF) 2012

Kota Kinabalu International Film Festival (KKIFF) is an annual event in KK and this year, 2012, is its 4th year. KKIFF states that this year it will be organizing an even more exciting and memorable event. The event, to be held from 08 to 14 June, will provide to the people of Kota Kinabalu exciting opportunities and be able to enjoy various international and local movies while increasing their knowledge on film-making.

Firstly, it will be showing several foreign films from countries such as France, Japan, Germany and the Philippines. Secondly, a filmmakers’ competition called ‘Links5’ (which it has already announced and will end on May 9) in which 3 cash prizes totaling RM8,000 will be presented to the winners. This competition is opened to Malaysians who live in Malaysia. A workshop for the ‘Links5’ Filmmakers’ Competition will be held at which reviews and comments will be made for chosen entries.

This year the Sabah Film Forum, held over the weekend of 09 and 10 June will present four workshops: ‘Story-telling’, ‘The Work of the Producer’, ‘What a Cinematographer’s Work Involves’ and ‘How to Write Proposals to Get Funding for Your Movie’. The workshop front runners will come from KL and beyond -  famous people in the film industry. There are no fees charged and anyone who is interested in film-making can attend these workshops.

Also for the first time, KKIFF 2012 welcomes short film submissions from Malaysian movie makers and selected submissions will be shown for free on 10 June from 7.30pm-9.30pm. There will be Questions and Answers session after the screening of each film so that people at these workshops will have a better understanding of what each director is trying to express through his work.

The video above is one of the short films submitted for the 'Links5' competition. The film "Treasure" is directed by Dulie Hamdan and acted by Artorbelly Evali, Robinson Ken, Jeremy Alsten and Nathasius Julian.