Crayons and Paper is a documentary short, featuring Dr. Jerry Ehrlich, a pediatrician who has worked with Doctors Without Borders. To document the effect of war on children, Dr. Ehrlich has the children draw pictures of their lives. The film features drawings made by children in Sri Lanka and Darfur.

The film is a follow-up to the documentary Facing Sudan

Facing Sudan

Facing Sudan is a documentary film released in 2007. It chronicles the situation in Sudan from independence in 1956, through civil war and the current crisis in Darfur. The narrative of Sudan is told through the eyes of activists from various segments of American society...

. It premiered at The Dam Short Film Festival

The Dam Short Film Festival

The Dam Short Film Festival is a film festival held annually in Boulder City, Nevada, typically in early February. Lee Lanier and Anita Lanier are the original co-founders of the festival. The festival is currently run by the Dam Short Film Society, a non-profit Nevada corporation...

 in February 2009 and is currently being broadcast on DOC: The Documentary Channel

DOC: The Documentary Channel

Documentary Channel is a specialty channel that features documentary programming. It airs independent documentary films from around the world, including those never-before-seen in the United States....

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The film was produced, directed and edited by Bruce David Janu

Bruce David Janu

Bruce David Janu is an educator and low budget indie filmmaker. Currently he teaches Social Science and English at John Hersey High School in Arlington Heights, Illinois. When he is not teaching, Janu is making educational materials and films. In 2000, he created an educational supply company...

. The soundtrack was composed by Tom Flannery

Tom Flannery

Tom Flannery is an American singer-songwriter and playwright from Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States. Allmusic has called him "one of the most gifted songwriters to emerge at the turn of the century." After three critically acclaimed albums he...

 and Lorne Clarke (singer)

Lorne Clarke (singer)

Lorne Clarke is a Canadian singer/songwriter and concert promoter who first began performing in the mid-1970s in the Toronto folk scene. Raised in the isolated mining community of Schefferville, Quebec, Clarke has since worked at a number of careers, including engineer on Great Lakes vessels,...

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External links

• Crayons and Paper at the Documentary Channel http://www.documentarychannel.com/movie.php?currID=8525