Abid Hussain
Abid Hussain is a specialist in broadcast creative solutions, on air promo strategy, creative mentoring & campaign designing.
“Take risks in your life. If you win, you can lead! If you lose, you can guide!” Abid Hussain
Abid Hussain was born in India. In 1992, Abid graduated from La Martiniere College and enrolled in University of Lucknow. Fresh from the attainment of a degree in Bachelor of Arts, English Literature and Tourism Management, Abid further his studies in Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia in Masters of Film and Television, Film Business, Television Production and Film Critique.
Abid Hussain had a deep-seated interest in films, broadcasting and creative so he took up a job at Channel [V] India as an associate producer in 2000 upon accomplishing his Masters. He worked on long form shows like V Dares You, V Fashion Police, First Day First Show and V Tonight. In 2001, he was handpicked by the Star India COO as a promo producer producing creative promos for Star Plus, Star Gold, Star News, National Geographic, Star Movies and Star World. He tasted his first success winning a Gold Award for Best Script Writing for a PSA in PromaxBDA World 2002. For all his achievement & creative work at Star India Pct Ltd, he received a letter of recommendation from Mr Rupert Murdoch, CEO and Chairman of News Corp.
Being offered a senior producer position in SPE Network, Singapore in 2003, Abid relocate to Singapore. At SPE Network, he designed, created and executed on-air promos and campaigns for AXN and Animax South Asia. He assists SPE Network in launching Animax India with local language promos and campaigns. He won another Gold Award for Best Movie Campaign Award at the PromaxBDA Asia 2004.
As a vindication to his creativity and success, he was offered the position of Creative Director of On-air Promotions at Astro All Asia Networks Plc. Stationed in Jakarta, Indonesia, he took on the challenge to create brand identities and localized promotion of Astro Ceria, Astro Awani and Astro Kirana for the Indonesian market. Always ready to share his knowledge and experience, he took to his task grooming local talents to be capable creative promo producers. Together with his team of promo producers, they created history when they won the first ever Gold Medal at the PromaxBDA World and PromaxBDA Asia Gold Rocket Award.
In April 2007, Abid was promoted to Vice President Network Creative. Still acting as a creative director, he relocated to Kuala Lumpur and manages a team of almost 40 people for 14 Astro Network channels in 2 South Asian countries. The team’s primary objective is to design on-air identities and execute smooth on-air promotion plan for all the 14 channels.
Abid along with his team has won closed to 75 awards from New York Festival Film and Television Award, Malaysian Kancil Advertising Awards, PromaxBDA Promotion, Marketing and Design World Award & PromaxBDA Asia. Besides judging PromaxBDA World, PromaxBDA Asia & New York Festival, he is also on the Advisory Board for New York Festivals for the last 4 yrs.
To expand his creative abilities and growing creative demands in the South East Asia region Abid founded his own creative solution company in July 2012 by the name of “Creative Stew”. Creative Stew is a one stop shop for all branding,design,production and post production needs. Mainly targetted at Campaign design,advertising creatives,brand identity and television promotions.
Abid Hussain lives with his wife, Sharmistha Hussain, their daughter, Sophiya and son Iliyas in Kuala Lumpur. He enjoys films, photography, new technology, travelling, working out and music.
His detailed resume and showreel can be viewed on www.creativestew.tv
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