List of Speakers
Panel 3: What types of queer content are Asian platforms looking for?
Janine Stein
Editorial Director at ContentAsia
Janine Stein is Editorial Director for ContentAsia's information platforms, including print and online as well as annual conference, the ContentAsia Summit, and the annual ContentAsia Awards. She has covered the Asian television and media business since 1989, and has worked for, among others, The Hollywood Reporter (U.S.), the South China Morning Post/Television & Entertainment Times (Hong Kong), Variety, Cable & Satellite Asia (FT Business), Television Business International (TBI, U.K.) and Electronic Media (U.S.). Prior to 1989, she covered the African television industry for five years. Among other roles, she was TV Editor for an English-language national daily and a correspondent for industry magazine, Southern Screen & Stage, out of Johannesburg. Janine ran the Singapore chapter of Women Media Networks Asia until 2005, and currently organises women's events under the banner of ContentAsia Women.
Pierre Cheung
SVP & GM Asia at ViacomCBS Networks International
Cheung is responsible for the management and operations of the company’s business in Asia (Greater China, Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia), including digital media, programme sales, consumer products, recreation and ancillary IP licensing and co-production. He is focused particularly on new opportunities and aligning operations between markets while leveraging cluster synergies. He also leads the charge for the company’s VIS (Viacom International Studios) business in Asia to drive local content creation.
Dindo Marzan
Country Head for Philippines
Dindo is the Country Head for Philippines at True Digital Group, a DX enabler and subsidiary of Thailand's Charoen Pokphand Group. He has 16 years experience in the IT, telco, advertising, and media industries. He just launched TrueID in his country.
Jay Lin
CEO of Protico Media & GagaOOLala
Jay Lin is the founder of Portico Media, a media powerhouse in Taiwan distributing linear channels and programs of NBCU Comcast, A&E, Viacom CBS, and other global media brands. He is also the founder of HahaTai, one of the most popular social media channels in Taiwan as well as GagaOOLala, an OTT streaming service that became the first to go global in May 2020.
Jay has been named by Newsweek as one of fifteen of the Best of Creative Class by Newsweek in 2019. He is a consultant to ITRI in media data collection and is a frequent speaker at various media and entertainment-related conferences.
Faruk Kabir
Producer, Screen Writer, Director
Educated from the New York Film Academy, Faruk started his carrier with the acclaimed documentary film "the unheard voice of the people of India" At age 24, Faruk made his Feature Film Debut with the Critically Acclaimed Film ‘Allah Ke Bandey' and went on to receive 13 nominations in 2011, including Best Debut Director nominations at the Filmfare, Star Screen, IIFA Awards & others. Faruk's Sensitive Web-film '377-Abnormal' based on the struggles of the LGBTQ community in India, bagged him several awards for the "Best Screenplay and “Best Digital Film 2019” at the Mtv, IwmBuzz, SWA & HitList Awards. Apart from this Faruk is credited with Over 30 Ad-Films, 4 Web Series & Three Features most of all popularly received. His latest venture is 'Khuda Haafiz', starring Vidyut Jammwal & others. It has become India’s No 1 Film in 2020 and released by DisneyHotstar in a 186 countries. Khudahaafiz has received amazing response from the audience and became a huge hit for Bollywood.