Palador Pictures
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| Private | |
| Industry | Home video |
| Founded | 2005 Mumbai, India |
| Headquarters | Mumbai, India |
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Key people
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Gautam Shiknis, Founder & Managing Director |
| Products | DVD |
| Website | www.mypalador.com |
Gautam Shiknis, Founder & Managing Director
Palador Pictures (also Palador Pictures Private Limited) is a content production, programming and publishing company operating from Mumbai, India, dealing mainly with the acquisition and distribution of foreign language films, also known as World cinema in the Indian subcontinent through DVD, television and theatre.
Palador Pictures was the first company to focus on the world cinema category in India in 2005. Reports from various articles published in newspapers put the number of foreign language films owned by Palador to be close to 1000 films including works of yesteryear as well as today's masters like Charlie Chaplin, Ingmar Bergman, Buster Keaton, Akira Kurosawa, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Abbas Kiarostami, David Lynch etc.
The name "Palador" is derived from the word "Pala", a fictional island in the novel The Island by Aldous Huxley. Palador is also a planet in the science fictional world of Arthur C. Clarke. The planet, first featured in Arthur C. Clarke's short story "Rescue Party," the first story Clarke sold. The residents of this planet are called Paladorians and are characterized as having different bodies, but one mind. Palador is also the name of a dental alloy.
The company has acquired these films from different parts of the world, especially film festivals e.g. it acquired the rights to around 300 films in the Cannes Film Festival of 2007, including the 'Extra-Special' anniversary prize winning film Paranoid Park. In the recently concluded Berlin International Film Festival, the company is said to have acquired films like Shine A Light), the biography of the Rolling Stones directed by Martin Scorsese, and the Lou Reed documentary Berlin.
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