NEON
Christian Parkes has extensive experience in marketing and brand management. Christian began their career at Puma as the US Music Marketing Manager, where they developed brand marketing initiatives and strategic partnerships with music labels and retailers. Christian then moved on to Nike, where they served as the US Brand Manager for Nike Sportswear and later as the West Brand Manager for Sport Culture. In these roles, they managed national brand campaigns, executed product launches, and developed peer-to-peer marketing venues. After Nike, Parkes worked as a Marketing Consultant for Gatorade, providing support and direction for non-traditional marketing efforts. Christian then joined Levi Strauss & Co. as the Marketing Director for Men's apparel in the Americas region before being promoted to Senior Director of Global Marketing. At Levi Strauss, they led strategic initiatives and managed cross-functional teams and budgets. Parkes held the position of Vice President of Brand Marketing at both Myspace and Nasty Gal before becoming the Chief Marketing Officer at Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas + Drafthouse Films and later at NEON, leading marketing and creative efforts for feature films and documentaries.
Christian Parkes attended Staffordshire University from 1994 to 1997, where they obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Media, Communications, Film, and Television. However, no specific start and end years were provided for this degree program. Additionally, it is worth mentioning that Christian Parkes attended the same university, but it is unclear whether they pursued another Bachelor of Arts degree in Media Communications, Film, and Television at a later time, as no specific start and end years were provided for this program either. Overall, their education history involves studying at Staffordshire University for a Bachelor of Arts degree in Media, Communications, Film, and Television.
This person is not in any teams
This person is not in any offices
NEON
17 followers
In just five years, NEON has garnered 25 Academy Award® nominations, 5 wins, including Best Picture, and has grossed over $200M 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, unanimously winning the Palme d’Or at Cannes, and grossing over $54M at the domestic box office. The NEON slate includes the Oscar-nominated documentaries All the Beauty and the Bloodshed and Fire of Love; 2022’s highest grossing documentary, Moonage Daydream, Brett Morgan’s genre-defying film chronicling the career of David Bowie; Kore-eda’s Broker, starring Cannes Best Actor winner Song Kang Ho (Parasite); and three-time Academy Award® nominee Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness, NEON’s third consecutive Palme d’Or winner. NEON has amassed a library of over 80 films, with noteworthy releases including: Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria, starring Tilda Swinton, with a successful and unprecedented “in theatres only… forever” release; Flee, which made history becoming the first film to score an impressive trifecta of Oscar® nominations; The Worst Person in The World, which was nominated for Original Screenplay and International Feature Film; Spencer, which earned Kristen Stewart an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress; the 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; 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.