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Crayon (2010)

Crayon poster
Directed by
Dean A. Burhan
Genre
drama film
Country
Malaysia
Runtime
1h 25m
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

The film follows two university students who join a social program to help orphans in east coast Malaysia. They face challenges when land developers reclaim the area and a charity concert is followed by a fire at the orphanage. These events test their commitment and their sense of purpose.

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What happens

Crayon (also referred to as Crayon the Movie) is a 2010 Malaysian Malay-language independent drama film. Written and directed by Dean A. Burhanuddin, it stars Edward Hon Kahoe, Faisal Abdullah, Adibah Noor and Joshry Adamme. Its producers are Dean A. Burhanuddin, Linda Ziegler and Elise A. Hamid. Inspired by true events, the film portrays two university students who volunteer for a social program to help orphans in the east coast of Malaysia during their semester holidays. However, the land they are visiting are reclaimed by land developers for their own purposes. A charity concert is held in their effort to help more, but the orphanage gets burnt down. This startling turn of events causes doubt to their new sense of purpose, and forces them to test their adversity. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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