NEON
Elissa Federoff has a solid background in film distribution and management. Elissa is currently the President of Distribution at NEON, where they lead the company's innovative approach to distribution and acquisition of award-winning films. Prior to that, they served as the Vice President of Theatrical Distribution at The Orchard, a pioneering independent film distribution company. Elissa also worked as the Vice President of Distribution for RADiUS-TWC, the boutique label from The Weinstein Company. Elissa began their career in the entertainment industry at Lionsgate, where they worked as a Sales Manager in Theatrical Distribution. Elissa has also held positions at Oscilloscope Laboratories, Tora Bora Pictures, and Earthworm Productions. Throughout their career, Elissa has been involved in the distribution of critically acclaimed films and has a strong understanding of the market trends and analytics that influence success in the industry.
Elissa Federoff attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1999 to 2003, where they earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English.
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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.