NEON
Emily Thomas has a diverse work experience, with their most recent position being the SVP, Business & Legal Affairs at NEON since January 2022. Prior to that, they worked as a Business & Legal Affairs Consultant at NEON from March 2020 to January 2022. Before joining NEON, Emily held the role of Commercial & Privacy Counsel at Zscaler from November 2019 to February 2020. Emily also has experience at Endeavor, where they served as an Associate Counsel for Endeavor Content, negotiating and drafting film distribution agreements. Additionally, Emily has worked at Jibe, an iCIMS Company, in various legal roles including Corporate Counsel, Contract Manager, and Contract Administrator, where they negotiated and closed software agreements and provided legal guidance on product considerations.
Emily Thomas attended Saint Francis High School from 2002 to 2006, where they did not obtain a degree or focus on a particular field of study. Emily then enrolled at Boston University from 2006 to 2010, earning a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in Journalism. After that, they pursued further education at Brooklyn Law School from 2012 to 2015, graduating with a Doctor of Law (J.D.) degree specializing in IP, Media, and Information Law. In addition to their degrees, they obtained the CIPP/US certification from the IAPP - International Association of Privacy Professionals in December 2014.
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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.