Cinetic Advertising founder Ryan Werner is the most recent addition at Neon, now becoming a member of the 2025 Finest Image-winning studio because the President of International Cinema.
In that newly created place, Werner will lead distribution efforts and oversee advertising and marketing, publicity, and awards. Werner will focus full-time on theatrical distribution and work carefully with Neon’s senior management to bolster advertising and marketing campaigns and launch methods.
“Ryan’s style, ardour, and instincts for cinema are boundless,” Neon CEO/Founder Tom Quinn mentioned. “Collectively, mixed with Ryan’s in depth information, wealth of relationships and envious observe file, we look ahead to proceed rising Neon as a premiere residence for groundbreaking cinema. To say we’re thrilled about working with Ryan could be the understatement of the 12 months.”
Werner mentioned of the announcement, “I’m extremely excited concerning the alternative to collaborate with Tom and the distinctive workforce at Neon. I deeply admire all the pieces they’ve achieved. It is a very particular alternative to create one thing with a number of the most gifted folks working in movie. I’m actually thrilled by the prospect of it.“
Werner joins Neon from Cinetic Advertising, which he based in 2014. Since its inception, Cinetic has labored on a slew of Oscar-winning tasks, together with 5 Finest Footage, 10 Finest Documentaries, seven Finest Worldwide Options, and three Finest Animated Options. Very like Neon, Cinetic has additionally been a staple at Cannes, and has represented the final 10 Palme d’Or winners, collaborating with the studio on the newest 5.
Exterior of Cinetic, Werner co-created Sideshow with Jonathan Sehring and the workforce at Janus Movies to launch options similar to “Drive My Automobile,” “Circulate,” “EO,” “All That Breathes,” and “All We Think about As Gentle.”
Neon most not too long ago swept the Academy Awards with Sean Baker’s “Anora.” The studio’s upcoming releases embrace Osgood Perkins’ “Keeper” (the studio now has a primary look take care of auteur Perkins), and Cannes 2025 titles similar to Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Worth,” Julia Ducournau’s “Alpha,” Raoul Peck’s “Orwell: 2+2=5,” and Michael Angelo Covino’s “Splitsville.” The distributor additionally introduced the acquisition of Cristian Mungiu’s English-language movie debut “Fjord” starring Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve. “4 Months, 3 Weeks and a couple of Days” director Mungiu already has one Palme d’Or to his identify, becoming a member of the ranks of Neon’s rising checklist of auteurs.