NEON is excited to announce they have signed on to produce Seeking Mavis Beacon, directed by Jazmin Jones, a Brooklyn-based, Bay Area-raised visual storyteller and thought leader, named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s ‘25 New Faces of Film’ in 2021.
NEON will produce alongside Guetty Felin, an award-winning independent filmmaker, teacher, film curator, and co-founder of the multicultural film company BelleMoon Productions; and Co-Producer Olivia McKayla Ross.
Jazmin Jones: "NEON has been a perfect home for this project. They understood our positionality as Black femmes and share our interest in disrupting traditional documentary forms. The trusting relationship we have with NEON has exceeded my expectations of the possibilities for a first-time Black queer nonbinary filmmaker– it’s been a blessing.”
NEON received 6-Oscar nominations for the 2022 awards for FLEE, The Worst Person in the World, and Spencer. Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s, FLEE made history becoming the first film to score an impressive trifecta of Oscar nominations in the categories of Best Animated Feature, Best Documentary Feature, and Best International Feature Film. The Worst Person in The World from Norwegian writer-director Joachim Trier is nominated for Original Screenplay and International Feature Film; and Kristen Stewart received a nomination for Best Actress in Pablo Larraín’s Spencer. Additional recently released films include Julia Ducournau’s Palme d’Or winner, Titane, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria starring Tilda Swinton.
About JAZMIN JONES:
Jazmin Jones (Director) is a Brooklyn-based, Bay Area-raised visual storyteller and thought leader with BUFU: By Us For Us. Her aim is to build platforms for more vibrant and nuanced representation of the marginalized communities she’s a part of. Working across visual mediums, her projects often echo personal experiences as a queer, Black femme waging intimacy in the Post-Internet era. She’s been granted the Human and Civil Rights Award from the National Association of Education, the Fair Use Award from the Media That Matters Film Festival, a Civic Arts and Humanities Fellowship with the Flaherty Film Seminar and was recently featured in SFMoMa’s Raw Materials podcast. In 2015, Jazmin co-founded BUFU: a project-based collective interested in solidarity amongst Us, co-creating experimental models of organizing with You. The collective was awarded Eyebeam’s 2017 Trust Residency and are 2020 residents with the Brooklyn Community Foundation Incubator Project.
About NEON:
In just five years, NEON has garnered 18 Academy Award® nominations, 5 wins, including Best Picture, and has grossed over $150M at the box office. The company continues to push boundaries and take creative risks on bold cinema such as Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite, which made history winning four Academy Awards®, becoming the first non-English-language film to claim Best Picture. The film, which also unanimously won the Palme d’Or at Cannes, has grossed over $53M at the domestic box office and broke multiple records. NEON has amassed a library of over 70 films with noteworthy releases including Tamara Kotevska and Ljubo Stefanov’s award-winning and record-breaking Honeyland, which is the first non-fiction feature to land Academy Award® nominations for Best Documentary and Best International Feature Film in the same year; Todd Douglas Miller’s Apollo 11 which grossed $16M worldwide; Julia Ducournau’s Palme d’Or winner, Titane; and Craig Gillespie’s I, Tonya, which garnered multiple Academy Award® nominations, one win for Allison Janney and amassed over $30M in domestic box office.
The company has several projects in various stages of development and production including The Painter and the Thief narrative remake; Brandon Cronenberg’s Infinity Pool starring Alexander Skarsgård; Cuckoo starring Hunter Schafer, Academy Award Nominee John Malkovich, Gemma Chan, and Sofia Boutella, written and to be directed by Tilman Singer; an untitled horror film from first-time feature director Bishal Dutta; and The End, a golden-age musical starring Academy Award Winner Tilda Swinton, George Mackay, and Stephen Graham with Joshua Oppenheimer directing. Recent acquisitions and upcoming releases include; Jonas Carpignano’s sensation A Chiara; Beba, from New York Afro-Latina artist, Rebeca Huntt; Céline Sciamma’s Petite Maman; Ninja Thyberg’s daring debut feature Pleasure; and Zhang Yimou’s One Second. NEON received 6-Oscar nominations for the 2022 awards for FLEE, The Worst Person in the World, and Spencer.
Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s, FLEE made history becoming the first film to score an impressive trifecta of Oscar nominations in the categories of Best Animated Feature, Best Documentary Feature, and Best International Feature Film. The Worst Person in The World from Norwegian writer-director Joachim Trier is nominated for Original Screenplay and International Feature Film; and Kristen Stewart received a nomination for Best Actress in Pablo Larraín’s Spencer. Additional recent releases include Julia Ducournau’s Palme d’Or winner, Titane; Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria starring Tilda Swinton; the anthology feature The Year of the Everlasting Storm; Matthew Heineman’s documentary The First Wave; Nicolas Cage starrer, Pig; Jamila Wignot’s Ailey; Gunda directed by Victor Kossakovsky; Robert Machoian’s powerful thriller The Killing of Two Lovers; Billie Eilish’s documentary The World’s a Little Blurry; Ben Wheatley's Horror Film In The Earth; Francis Lee’s romantic drama Ammonite starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan; Alex’s Gibney’s documentary Totally Under Control; Max Barbakow’s Palm Springs starring Andy Samberg; and Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire.
Following a successful collaboration on I, Tonya in January 2018, 30WEST (Dan Friedkin's and Micah Green's strategic venture) partnered with NEON's Tom Quinn (Founder & CEO) and Tim League (Co-Founder) to become majority investors in the company.
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