Award-winning studio Neon announced today that the genre-bending, visionary documentary “2073” from Academy Award-winning and BAFTA-winning director Asif Kapadia (Amy) will be released in select U.S. theaters on December 27th, following its well-received world premiere at the Venice Film Festival and screenings at the BFI London Film Festival, Sitges, and others. “2073” will screen at the upcoming IDFA and DOCNYC film festivals.

Starring Academy Award nominee Samantha Morton (“The Serpent Queen”) and Naomi Ackie (“Blink Twice”) and written by Kapadia and Tony Grisoni, “2073” is inspired by Chris Marker’s 1962 featurette “La Jetée” about a time traveler who risks his life to change the course of history and save the future of humanity.

“2073” was produced by Kapadia and George Chignell for Lafcadia Productions. Executive producers are Tom Quinn and Dan O’Meara for Neon, Emily Thomas, Dana O’Keefe, Emily Selinger, Ollie Madden, Farhana Bhula, Nicole Stott for Concordia Studio, Chris King, Eric Sloss, and John Sloss. Double Agent, Neon, and Film4 also executive produced and co-financed the project.

It’s the year 2073, and the worst fears of modern life have been realized. Surveillance drones fill the burnt orange skies and militarized police roam the wrecked streets, while survivors hide away underground, struggling to remember a free and hopeful existence. In this ingenious mixture of visionary science fiction and speculative nonfiction, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia (Amy) transports us to a future foreshadowed by the terrifying realities of our present moment. Two-time Academy Award nominee Samantha Morton (“In America,” “Sweet and Lowdown,” “Minority Report”) plays a survivor besieged by nightmare visions of the past—a past that happens to be our present, visualized through contemporary footage interconnecting today’s global crises of authoritarianism, unchecked big tech, inequality, and global climate change. “2073” is an urgent, unshakable vision of a dystopic future that could very well be our own.

As a consistent champion of documentaries, Neon has been behind many award-winning docs, including: “Fire of Love” alongside NatGeo; “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed;” “Flee;” “Moonage Daydream;” “Three Identical Strangers;” and “Honeyland.” Recent and upcoming documentaries for Neon, which they also produced, include: Andrew McCarthy’s “Brats,” which has been a massive hit in its release on Hulu following its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival; “Seeking Mavis Beacon” from Jazmin Jones, which premiered to critical acclaim at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, released in limited theaters this past September, and was selected for the Best Feature Documentary Shortlist by the International Documentary Association (IDA); “2073;” Academy Award-nominee Raoul Peck’s “Orwell” about the famed author George Orwell; and “Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme,” which premiered at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. Neon is also handling sales on acclaimed political documentary “Men of War” from filmmakers Billy Corben and Jen Gatien.

Neon recently released “Anora,” the highly-anticipated new film from Sean Baker starring Mikey Madison, which won the coveted Palme d’Or in Cannes and opened in select theaters October 18 to the highest per-screen average of 2024; Osgood Perkins’ horror film “Longlegs;” and “Immaculate” starring Sydney Sweeney. They recently announced Boots Riley’s highly anticipated next feature “I Love Boosters” which is set to star Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, LaKeith Stanfield, Demi Moore, Eiza González, Poppy Liu, Taylour Paige, and Will Poulter.

The Neon International slate currently includes Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick’s “Family Movie,” starring Bacon, Sedgwick, Sosie Bacon, and Travis Bacon; Chris Rock’s “Misty Green;” Michael Covino’s “Splitsville” starring Dakota Johnson and Adria Arjona; Osgood Perkins’ “Keeper;” Steven Soderbergh’s “Presence,” which made its world premiere in Sundance, where Neon picked up the worldwide rights; and “They Follow,” the long-awaited sequel to the modern horror classic “It Follows” from visionary writer/director David Robert Mitchell, starring Maika Monroe.

About Neon
In only seven years, Neon has garnered 32 Academy Award nominations (7 this year), 6 wins, including Best Picture, and has grossed over $300M 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. The film also unanimously won the Palme d’Or at Cannes and grossed over $54M at the domestic box office.

Recent and upcoming Neon releases include: “Anora” from Sean Baker, which won the Palme d’Or in Cannes and released in theaters on October 18 to the highest per-screen average of 2024; and “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” from Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, which Neon picked up out of this year’s Cannes Film Festival and has been selected as the German entry for Best International Feature at the 97th Academy Awards.

As a burgeoning leader in the production space, Neon’s recent and upcoming in-house productions include: David Robert Mitchell’s “They Follow” starring Maika Monroe; Brandon Cronenberg’s “Infinity Pool;” Bishal Dutta’s “It Lives Inside;” and Joshua Oppenheimer’s “The End,” a golden-age musical starring Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton.

Neon launched its international sales outfit ahead of the Venice Film Festival in 2023, handling titles including: Michael Covino’s “Splitsville” starring Dakota Johnson and Adria Arjona; Kogonada’s “A Big Bold Beautiful Journey” starring Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell; Jason Buxton’s “Sharp Corner” starring Ben Foster and Cobie Smulders, which premiered at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival; and Steven Soderbergh’s “Presence,” which made its world premiere in Sundance, where Neon picked up the worldwide rights.

Neon has amassed a library of over 110 films, with noteworthy releases including: “Anatomy of a Fall” from Justine Triet, which won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and earned Neon its fourth consecutive Palme d’Or win at its world premiere in Cannes; Wim Wenders’ “Perfect Days,” which was the Japanese nomination for the 96th Academy Awards; and “Robot Dreams” from Pablo Berger, which received an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature. It also includes the Oscar-nominated documentaries “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” and “Fire of Love;” 2022’s highest grossing documentary, “Moonage Daydream;” and three-time Academy Award nominee Ruben Östlund’s “Triangle of Sadness;” “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 at the Academy Awards; 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.

Following a successful collaboration on “I, Tonya” in January 2018, 30WEST (Dan Friedkin’s and Micah Green’s strategic venture) partnered with Neon’s Tom Quinn (Founder & CEO) and Tim League (Co-Founder) to become majority investors in the company.