NEON
Mason Speta is an experienced professional in the entertainment industry, currently serving as the Director of Development, Acquisitions & Production at NEON since July 2018, after progressing from roles including Manager of Acquisitions and Company & Acquisitions Coordinator. Previously, Mason worked as a Motion Picture Talent Assistant at ICM Partners from May 2017 to July 2018, where responsibilities included pitching clients, managing offers, and providing script coverage. Mason also has a background in competitive fencing, earning a Bronze Medal at the 2016 NCAA Championships and contributing to multiple championship wins with the Columbia University Varsity Women’s Fencing Team. Additionally, Mason completed a Sales and Distribution Internship at Cinetic Media, focusing on film coverage and festival preparation. Mason holds a degree from Columbia University, where studies were completed between 2013 and 2017.
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NEON
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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.