HeyJared"What's Stew-ing?" with Abid Hussain
"What's Stew-ing?" is an english language, weekly, Malaysian content industry podcast, where Abid Hussain, Founder/CEO of Creative Stew asks the Malaysian content industry captains questions about their line of work in the entertainment industry and how they can help grow the…
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Angga Dwimas: Building A Studio From Scratch In Indonesia | What's Stewing S3-Ep3 (opens the original)
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Here is a number that stays with you: 117,000. That is how many Indonesians share a single cinema screen. One country, 280 million people, 17,000 islands, more than 700 languages.And yet Indonesian films took 65% of their national box office in 2024. By 2025 that share had climbed to 78%. This is not a market in decline. It is a market that has barely begun. One man has been building for it since before it knew what it was.Angga Dwimas Sasongko founded Visinema Pictures at twenty-three. He studi
Dato' Adflin Shauki: Who Really Runs Malaysian Cinema? | What's Stewing S3-Ep2 (opens the original)
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For 30 years, Dato' Adflin Shauki made Malaysia laugh. Today he sits in three of the rooms where our film industry is actually decided.He is chairman of FDAM, the Film Directors Association of Malaysia. He is chairman of the Skim Wajib Tayang committee, the body that decides which local films get guaranteed screen time. And in 2025 he won his PKR division in Setiawangsa, placing him inside the ruling party. The comedian who spent decades shouting at the system from the outside finally walked thr
Anurag Kashyap: Cinema Without Permission | What's Stewing S3-Ep1 (opens the original)
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Anurag Kashyap — the filmmaker behind Gangs of Wasseypur, Dev D, Black Friday and Kennedy — sits down with Abid Hussain for his first-ever podcast recorded in Malaysia, and the Season 3 premiere of What's Stewing. Recorded at the Creative Stew office in Kuala Lumpur — where Anurag was in town as a jury member at MIFFEST, the Malaysian International Film Festival — this is an unusually honest conversation. Anurag Kashyap talks about going to Cannes and asking himself whether he's becoming irrelev
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