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Sarah Colvin

VP Of Acquisitions at NEON

Sarah Colvin has a diverse work experience in various roles and industries. Sarah started their career in 2013 at FirstRail Marketing, where they worked as a Social Media Manager. In 2015, they worked at The Santa Fe Opera as a Team Leader and Usher, providing front-of-house management services. Sarah then interned at La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, contributing to their outreach program and production office. In 2016, they served as an Editorial Intern at IndieWire and a Production Intern at Parts & Labor Films. In 2017, they gained experience as a Development Intern at Symbolic Exchange and Jax Media, and as a Production Intern at Search Party (TV Series). From 2015 to 2017, they worked as a Communications Coordinator at Minetta Review. Sarah joined NEON in 2018 and held various positions, starting as a Publicity Coordinator, then progressing to roles like Coordinator of Acquisitions and Business Affairs, Manager of Acquisitions and Business Affairs, and currently, they serve as the Director of Acquisitions & Business Affairs.

Sarah Colvin attended the New Mexico School for the Arts from 2009 to 2014, where they obtained their high school diploma. Their field of study during this time was Drama and Dramatics/Theatre Arts, General. After completing their high school education, they enrolled at New York University from 2014 to 2018. During their time at NYU, Sarah pursued a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree, with a focus on Dramatic Writing- Screenwriting and Playwriting. Sarah also completed a minor in Film Production.

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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.


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