Pendatang

Pendatang (2023)

Set in a dystopian Malaysia in which different races are forbidden to mix. A Chinese family moves into their new house to find a scared Malay girl still hiding in it. Should they get rid of her or try to smuggle her back to safety?

Date of release
2023-11-28
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (2)
Runtime
1h 39m
Genres
Thriller
Director
Ken Kin Ng

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Budget: $70.7K
  • Filmed in: Perak

Pendatang is a 2023 Malaysian dystopian drama thriller film directed by Ng Ken Kin and written by Lim Boon Siang. Produced by Kuman Pictures in association with Tapir Films, Pendatang follows a Cantonese–speaking Chinese family forced to relocate to a rural kampong home, shortly after Malaysia implemented the fictional Segregation Act, where racial segregation between the ethnic groups of the country became strictly enforced.

Development

Pendatang is a fully crowdfunded movie. In 2022, Kuman Pictures raised a total of RM335,981 through the crowdfunding campaign on the platform, Indiegogo. The production team chose to be fully crowd funded to ensure the film would be faithful to the script without limitations that traditional government and commercially led productions and funding options may have imposed.

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