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Jeff Deutchman has a strong and diverse background in the film industry. Starting in 2006, they worked at IFC Entertainment as the Director of Acquisitions, where they acquired over two hundred feature films and championed the acquisition of arthouse hits. In 2013, they moved to Paramount Pictures as the Director of Acquisitions, where they acquired domestic and international rights to independent films and negotiated deals with third parties. In 2014, they joined Alchemy as the SVP of Acquisitions and Production, where they oversaw the acquisitions strategy for the company's theatrical specialty slate. In 2016, Deutchman worked as a Programmer at Large for the Tribeca Film Festival NYC, LLC. In 2009, they created and produced the Election Day Series, which included the documentary "11/8/16" distributed by The Orchard. Currently, they are the EVP of Acquisitions & Production at NEON, where they have taken on increasing responsibility since joining the company in 2017.
Jeff Deutchman attended Northwestern University from 2001 to 2005, where they earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Communications.
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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.