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Karl Malakunas’s documentary Delikado to be aired on Saturday on Arte
Karl Malakunas’s award-winning documentary on land defenders in the Philippines, Delikado, will have its European broadcast premiere on Arte this Saturday, April 22, to coincide with Earth Day. Broadcast times are 11.15am in France and 12.05pm in Germany. Delikado will be also available online at arte.tv
Delikado is an enviro-thriller set on Palawan, which appears to be an idyllic tropical island. But for a tiny network of environmental crusaders trying to protect its spectacular natural resources, it is more akin to a battlefield. Delikado follows Bobby, Tata and Nieves, three magnetic leaders of this network, as they risk their lives in David versus Goliath-style struggles trying to stop politicians and businessmen from destroying the Philippines’ “last ecological frontier”.
Karl, AFP deputy editor-in-chief for Asia and Pacific, is the director, producer and writer of Delikado. He won a Walkley, Australia’s version of a Pulitzer, for the film. Delikado has screened at dozens of film festivals around the world, winning multiple awards, and was broadcast across the United States last year on PBS’s POV programme.
