Pictured from left to right: Aaron Kaplan, Apoorva Bakshi, Florence Sloan, Sanjay Bachani, Pooja Kohli, and Harry Sloan
ABOUT GOLDEN KARAVAN
Golden Karavan is a mini-major with offices in Mumbai and Los Angeles that produces and distributes high-end and provocative Indian-themed episodic content for premium OTT platforms targeting a global audience. It is a strategic partnership between Jeff Sagansky, Florence Sloan, Aaron Kaplan with Apoorva Bakshi, Pooja Kohli and Sanjay Bachani of Film Karavan.
With a full development slate and the ability to curate material with an eye to engage, the company will provide the infrastructure, bandwidth, TV business acumen and production experience to the ever-expanding South Asian market.
CREATING AND FINANCING A SLATE OF ORIGINAL OTT & STREAMING CONTENT
The mission of the mini-major is to be the new differentiator, a new-era TV studio that, through collaborative partnerships with strategic producing partners and creative filmmakers, will share engaging stories with the widest audiences possible, even if that means pushing boundaries and taking risks.
PROVIDING THE INFRASTRUCTURE, BANDWIDTH, AND TV BUSINESS ACUMEN AND PRODUCING EXPERIENCE TO INDIA’S EXPANDING MARKET
With a full development slate, the company will supply compelling content from the region for a straight-to-digital release on premium global streaming platforms and broadcasters across the world.
GLOBAL TEAM. WORLD CLASS RESULTS.
Aaron Kaplan is founder of Kapital Entertainment, one of the most successful TV production companies in Hollywood. Kaplan has partnered with CBS Corporation to co-finance Kapital projects and to serve as the company’s worldwide distributor.
FLORENCE SLOAN
Florence Sloan is both a successful producer (“Snowflower and the Secret Fan”) and philanthropist. She spearheaded the launch of Golden Karavan and leverages her past experience as Co-CEO of Big Feet Productions and producing-partner for Golden Peak Productions to focus on business development.
JEFF SAGANSKY
Jeff Sagansky is an active media investor having taken public companies including Videocon d2h, Global Eagle Entertainment and the recently announced merger of Double Eagle Acquisition and Williams Scotsman. He is the former President of CBS Entertainment and former co-president of Sony Pictures Television.
APOORVA BAKSHI
Before partnering on Golden Karavan, Apoorva Bakshi was part of the team that launched Film Karavan, an India distribution company which supplied most of the foundation and products to platforms in India. Apoorva’s strength lies is in distribution and packaging projects (Keifer Sutherland’s 24, So You Think You Can Dance and Top Chef) for premium OTT platforms and broadcasters in their launch phases.
SANJAY BACHANI
Prior to partnering on Golden Karavan, Sanjay Bachani was part of a team that launched Film Karavan. FilmKaravan is a streamlined aggregation & delivery solution house that aggregates, encodes, packages and delivers digital assets to major digital platforms.
POOJA KOHLI
Pooja Kohli has 20+ years’ experience in content acquisitions with a specific focus on business development, niche marketing and media production/operations across NA, UK, and India. A ferocious guardian of good content Pooja has served on various international juries and launched the MIAAC Film Festival in her earlier years. She currently serves as Managing Director and CEO of FilmKaravan and aggregates & seemlessly distributes high quality content across digital platforms.
“One of the real powers behind Golden Karavan is the ability to creatively curate material with an eye to engage and entertain digital audiences in India. We are pleased with the running start we already have and look forward to bringing more exciting projects to fruition.”
“Given our extensive knowledge and distribution experience of the Indian film business, Film Karavan wanted to use that expertise to expand into the TV sector.”
“Given the access to broadband that is transforming the Indian media landscape, the timing is ideal to launch Golden Karavan, a studio that will provide provocative and high-end, Indian-themed content.”
“We recognize the opportunity to focus on the underserved Southeast Asian market with amazing storytellers and talent, both in front of and behind the camera, and we couldn’t have stronger partners leading the creative than we do with Apoorva, Pooja, and Sanjay.”
“Given our extensive knowledge and distribution experience of the Indian film business, Film Karavan wanted to use that expertise to expand into the TV sector.”
“We are hitting the ground running with two series projects greenlit and many others in development.”