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© Gurvinder Singh/Vahao Studio A new Paris-based production company dedicated to independent and auteur Indian cinema has entered the market.
Pavo Films, co-founded in by Cosmin Illes and Némésis Srour, announced its formation at the Cannes Film Market, with Gurvinder Singh’s “Rehmat” – starring Naseeruddin Shah – as its debut co-production.
The two co-founders bring complementary backgrounds in streaming and South Asian cinema scholarship. Illes spent over six years at Spideo, working with international streaming platforms including Canal+ and Globo, before serving as head of marketing at LaCinetek, the French filmmaker-curated streaming platform. Srour is the author of “Bollywood Film Traffic” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), a history of Hindi-language cinema’s reach across the Arab world, and has more than a decade of experience distributing and curating Indian and South Asian cinema in France.
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