rocky soraya

Quality Comes First

Rocky Soraya is a producer and also the founder as well as the CEO of Hitmaker Studios. He established the production house because he was into horror movies and his father, the well-known producer Raam Soraya who also owns the production house Soraya Intercine Film, suggested that he start his very own company. Soraya Intercine Film, by the way, is much more family-friendly. Taking his father’s suggestion to heart, Rocky established Hitmaker Studios in 2012. Then, in 2016, he started directing movies because he wanted to do it his way. “Sometimes what the directors imagine is different than what I have in mind,” he notes.

The four movies which Rocky directed back-to-back was recognized by MURI

(Museum Rekor-Dunia Indonesia, or the Indonesian World Records Museum) for gaining more than a million viewers each. One in particular, “Suzanna: Bernapas Dalam Kubur” recorded a total a total of 3.3 million viewers. That achievement is certainly one of the biggest milestones in Rocky’s career.

Running a production company is definitely not without its fair share of challenges. Rocky shares that one of the biggest that he had to face was gaining the trust of Indonesian audiences and convincing them that Indonesian horror movies can be of high quality. Eventually, through hard work, he managed to do just that. More recently, Rocky and Hitmaker Studios have been working on making shows for OTT platforms what with most cinemas still not fully opening. He now hopes of finding plenty of good directors and ensure that audiences get the best he can offer.