It has screened at Pusan International Film Festival in South Korea and Santa Monica, USA.
Dawan is a teenage girl who lives with her brother, father and grandmother in a small village in Batam.
After learning about Pairot's evil plans, Dana, with the help of her sister, struggle to save her beloved village.
Sing to the Dawn was produced by Infinite Frameworks (IFW), an animation studio based in Batam, Indonesia.
[1][2] The English-language version of the film was released on 30 October 2008 in Singapore, followed by Korea, Malaysia and Russia.
Sing to the Dawn was not immediately released in Indonesia because IFW wanted to introduce the film to an international audience first.
The conflicts experienced by the villagers in the book center around women's traditional gender roles in Southeast Asia.
The plot in the film has less conflict between Dana and her father who told her sister that he did not believe that women need education.
[2] In the premiere of Sing to the Dawn at Jurong Bird Park, Singapore, Minfong Ho found the movie to be very different from the book and that they are not to be compared with each other.