Crowdfunded movie 'Pendatang' premiers, garners 100,000 views in 17 hours


PETALING JAYA: Local movie Pendatang, which was entirely crowdfunded, has been released on YouTube and has garnered 100,000 views as at 3pm on Friday (Dec 22), a mere 17 hours after it premiered.

The movie, which drew rave reviews, is by Kuman Pictures and is set in a dystopian Malaysia where races are forbidden to mix. It is about a Chinese family who find a Malay girl hiding in their new house.

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