Crayon (film)

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Crayon
Poster crayon.jpg
Crayon theatrical poster
Directed byDean A. Burhanuddin
Written byDean A. Burhanuddin
Produced by
  • Dean A. Burhanuddin
  • Linda Ziegler
  • Elise A. Hamid
Starring
  • Kahoe Howard Hon
  • Faisal Abdullah
  • Adibah Noor
  • Joshry Adamme
CinematographyEric Oh
Music by Pacai
Production
company
ZiOSS Films
Distributed byZiOSS Films
Release date
  • 11 November 2010 (2010-11-11)
Running time
85 minutes
CountryMalaysia
Languages
  • English
  • Malay
  • Chinese
  • Tamil
BudgetRM 1.31 million ($405,760)
Box officeRM 53,000 ($16,416)

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 Hon Kahoe, Faisal Abdullah, Adibah Noor and Joshry Adamme. Its producers are Dean A. Burhanuddin, Linda Ziegler and Elise A. Hamid.

Contents

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.

Cast

Production

Development

Dean wrote the script in September 2009, as he realised that life has a greater meaning when helping others. The loss of his father in 2009 changed him that to help others we must not only think of the Malaysian people all the time.

The entire process took 1 year where the team had a very short pre-production of 3 months followed by a month of shoot and lastly 6 months of post production. The locations of filming were in Kuala Lumpur, Malacca and Singapore.

Release

Crayon was scheduled to be released in Malaysia on 11 November 2010. It is also slated to premiere in Laemmle Theatres, West Hollywood, Los Angeles, California for a 7-day run on 4 November 2010. This makes the first Malaysian film ever to be released in the United States. [1] It made its premiere screening at e@Curve, Mutiara Damansara, on 17 September 2010. [2]

Reception

Accolades

Crayon was eligible for the 83rd Academy Awards nominations listed in early January 2011 and was competing with 248 other films in all categories except the Foreign film category. [3]

Sequels

Burhanuddin has stated that his first film revolves around orphans, the second film will focus on people with disabilities, whereas the third and last will focus on the elderly. With his films, he intends to bring awareness to the adversity that these groups face and how they overcome them.[ citation needed ]

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