Cora Yim, chief content officer and co-founder of Hong Kong-based production house, Sixty Percent Productions, is ContentAsia's Woman to Watch for today because... she's front and centre of a streaming-driven content gold rush the likes of which has never before been experienced, with decades of credentials, a broad network, and access to funding.

Yim’s Sixty Percent Productions with partner Kit Low was formally set up at the end of 2020, based in Hong Kong with a North Asia focus but with eyes on good stories from anywhere in the region.

Their first project is premium Chinese anthology series "Taiwan Crime Stories", co-financed and co-produced with Imagine Entertainment and Benjamin Lin’s Taiwan-based CalFilms Asia, and with a production grant from Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture. The 12-episode show, based on true crimes from Taiwan, is scheduled to go into production in mid-2021.

“I have always believed there is a platform for high-quality Asian productions that can travel the world,” she told ContentAsia in February, when Sixty Percent Productions was unveiled. “That has always been my vision, even in the old days at Star,” she added.

Yim says she is motivated by "interesting stories and people with inspiration". She adds that she is "especially keen on exploring the hidden gems of people, and business with fun".

Here's what else she said in answer to the other two questions we've asked women across Asia's content industry:

What would you like people to say about you when you are not in the room?

"She is a visionary leader with compassion, yet also a trustworthy teammate and friend"

Are you now where you thought you would be when you were 20?

"I never thought I could work in the media and entertainment industry, and for this long . Being the last generation of the Hong Kong film studios intern in the 1990s, I am blessed to transit from its golden era towards the booming of OTT platforms. Am still figuring out, with awe, what's next." 

💥 ContentAsia's Women to Watch 2021 series asks women from across Asia's content industry to talk about what motivates them, what they would like people to say or think about them when they’re not in the room, & whether they are now where they thought they would be when they were 20.