About Palm Pictures

Palm Pictures, an audio/visual entertainment company has quickly become one of the most highly respected independent studios and has distinguished itself as a leader in the converging music, digital media, theatrical, home video and VOD markets. Palm Pictures is actively involved in the acquisition, production and distribution of innovative music and independent film projects. Releasing 10 - 12 films theatrically per year, Palm Pictures has solidified its brand as the film studio dedicated to bringing audiences quality cutting-edge cinema and continues to deliver the best in foreign, arthouse and music films.

Palm Pictures UK

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Press inquiries

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Current Openings

Film

With a highly devoted fan base, Palm Pictures has gained an enormous amount of recognition in the Home Entertainment industry. Since its inception in 1998, Palm Pictures has been responsible for such critical and commercial successes as The Basketball Diaries, Sex and Lucia, The Believer, and The Directors Label Series: a retrospective of the work of the world’s most acclaimed music video directors, Fulltime Killer, Gunner Palace, Cronicas, The Eye and DIG!, among others. Releasing award winning films and cutting-edge music projects on the DVD format, Palm has an extensive library including: Arthouse Films, Palm World Voices, The Directors Label Series and Palm Pictures Video. Each label creates a colorful range of high quality DVDs that are presented with loads of DVD extras and premium added-value pieces.

Music

Palm Pictures is home to an eclectic catalogue of audio releases highlighting such diverse musical genres as world music, Latin Rock/Alternative, electronica and indie rock for music lovers across the board. With a roster that includes premier African artists Baaba Maal and Gigi, electronic heavyweights Zero 7 and Koop, the groundbreaking Latin flavor of Sidestepper, Da Lata and Radio Mundial and the critically-acclaimed indie rock of Earlimart, Moving Units and Lake Trout, Palm Pictures has established itself as a vanguard music label.

Palm Pictures VOD

Palm Pictures VOD showcases innovative feature films, documentaries and shorts from both emerging and established filmmakers. Programming consists of first-run and recently released feature and short films from Palm Picture’s growing library, as well exclusive trailers, cast and crew interviews and behind-the-scene footage from Palm Picture’s distinctive film and music projects. The Channel is presented in three sections: Palm Festival, Palm Shorts & Extra, and Music.


Palm Entertainment Family

Arthouse Films

Arthouse Films features the stories and works of cultural icons in the world of fine arts, fashion, and music.

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Blue Mountain Music

Blue Mountain Music is an independently owned music publishing company. For over 40 years Blue Mountain has worked with the very best songwriters from around the world and currently controls a catalogue of 4,000 songs. The company was established in 1962 by Chris Blackwell and grew up side-by-side with Island Records.

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Island Outpost

“Like a close-knit family of wildly attractive, intelligent and anarchic kids, they are utterly independent and quite impossible to separate from one another. But something they have all inherited is Blackwell’s easy charm, his amused and iconoclastic view of the world, his sense of fun and style, his instinct for beauty.” - Conde Nast Traveler on Island Outpost properties

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RES Media Group

RES Media Group (RMG) is a global media company dedicated to the innovative creative community in the areas of film, music, art, design and culture. With offices in New York, Los Angeles, and London, the ten-year-old company is internationally recognized as a leader in its field. RMG produces RESFEST, the acclaimed film festival; RES magazine, a bi-monthly publication for the emerging creative lifestyle; regular retail and promotional DVDs featuring original content; a monthly screen series; an extensive online network that includes the Webby Award winning epitonic.com and sputnik7.com; and RESLAB, a marketing services division providing integrated solutions for a broad range of clients.

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Rx Records

Rx Records …. a launching pad for the creative Artist. A new prescription from the Kurfirst Blackwell Company. Current Artists include Moving Units, Lake Trout and Radio Mundial.

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Urban Image

UrbanImage is the beginning of an evolution of accessible digital photographic archives.

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In Theaters & Coming to DVD

Africa Unite - 350,000 Proud

Summer Palace - Love and revolution in Tiananmen Square
Africa Unite - Bob Marley’s vision in Ethiopia

Recent Releases

The Rocket - The Legend

The Rocket - The story of Maurice Richard
Ten Canoes - Cannes winner
Sun Dogs - Jamaica’s dogsled team
Peter Beard - Life and work of Peter Beard
You’re Gonna Miss Me - Roky Erickson’s story