American independent film production company and distributor, found in 2017 by Tim League and Tom Quinn. Focusing on personalized and intimate indie films (in its first year distributing Colossal, Ingrid Goes West, and I, Tonya), NEON also uses the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or as a litmus test for success: it bought the North American distribution rights to Palme d'Or winner Parasite, which became its most profitable film, and the first non-English-language film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Since then, it distributed Titane (2021), Triangle of Sadness (2022), Anatomy of a Fall (2023), and Anora (2024), to the delight of cinephiles across North America.
NEON is also known for its theatrical distribution of documentaries(e.g., Three Identical Strangers, Apollo 11, The Biggest Little Farm, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Fire of Love); prestige foreign language films (Portrait of a Lady on Fire, The Worst Person in the World, Perfect Days), and the occasional dip into indie horror (Bad Hair, Infinity Pool, Longlegs).