As Nicolas Winding Refn teams with NEON Rated for his Cannes return, the film marks an important collaboration ahead of the indie banner’s 10th anniversary. The co-writer and director of Her Private Hell , debuting May 18 at Cannes before its July 24 U.S. premiere, recently explained how his 2016 film The Neon Demon inspired the name of Tom Quinn and Tim League’s production and distribution company. “Well, Neon is called Neon because of Neon Demon ,” Refn told IndieWire of the hyper-stylized fashion noir film starring Elle Fanning, which he co-wrote with Mary Laws and Polly Stenham. Following the movie’s 2016 Cannes premiere, a mysterious Chinese buyer that turned out to be NEON debuted, buying Nacho Vigalondo’s Colossal out of TIFF. Watch on Deadline “Tom Quinn has been very instrumental in my life. Because he brought the Pusher trilogy to the U.S., and we did Only God Forgives together, which was a very, in a way, pivotal point in my own creative endeavor,” he explained.…