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"Greenlights & Ground Truths" is ContentAsia’s interview podcast featuring Asia’s leading screen creators — directors, producers, writers and actors across television, film and streaming.
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"Everyone Was a Hostage" – Inside Premium Taiwan Series “Black Tide Island” with Producer Roger Cheng (opens the original)
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Roger Cheng, producer of Black Tide Island, joins Janine Stein to discuss the making of the premium Taiwan drama, whichfollows five jailed doctors and intellectuals held at Green Island Prison during the White Terror period (1947–1987). Cheng talks through the storytelling approach to a five-year journey from research to screen, the decision to rebuild Green Island's prison as a full-scale set in Tainan rather than use CGI, the medical and language training given to the cast, and the musical thr
Surviving the Formats Reset with Jin Woo Hwang (opens the original)
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Asia's unscripted formats market has shrunk by about two-thirds over the past five years. So what does it take for an indie agency to survive, let alone win? On this episode of ContentAsia On Air, Jin Woo Hwang, co-founder of Korean formats agency Something Special, joins Janine to talk about life as an indie formats creator, developer and distributor in a market defined by risk aversion and shrinking budgets. He explains why broadcasters have pulled back from funding creative trial and error, w
Eight Days a Week with Quark Henares (opens the original)
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Filipino filmmaker Quark Henares joins ContentAsia On Air to talk about his expanded role shaping the Philippines' film industry, adding reality TV to his credits, his work withRein Entertainment, and giving back through the Lennon Group — plus DJ Fridays and protecting family time. The "Where's the Lie?" director also opens up on saying yes a lot, the Philippines' creative superpower, protecting the theatrical window, streaming's impact, shifting tastes, smarter content, and co-production. Then
BEING LOUD QUIETLY | Onat Diaz on directing The Silent Noise (opens the original)
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Onat Diaz — director of "Wildflower", "Dirty Linen" and "The Alibi" — joins Content Asia On Air to talk about "The Silent Noise", a 10-episode limited series produced by ABS-CBN Studios for Prime Video about a deaf 10-year-old boy who may hold the key to a murder. The show just won Best Asian Content at the Global OTT Awards in Busan, the Philippines' first-ever win in that category, beating out entries from Thailand, Taiwan, Japan and China. Lead actress Angelica Panganiban, who plays Jackie Ca
"Don't Give Up On Your BG Love Story" – Inside Thailand with Indra Suharjono (opens the original)
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Indra Suharjono, co-founder of i.e. Entertainment and one of the most influential names in Thai content distribution, joins Content Asia On Air for a no-BS conversation about where Thailand's industry is headed. We cover why distribution - not co-production - remains Thailand's biggest long-term opportunity, what made "The Medium" and the record-breaking "Love Destiny" work when so many co-productions fail, how Netflix's "Mad Unicorn", "Master of the House" and "The Evil Lawyer" succeeded by sta
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