Christine Vachon

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Christine Vachon

Born

1962
New York City

Occupation

Producer

Years active

1985 — present

Awards won
Other Awards
San Francisco International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 1994 Frameline Award Gotham Awards 1999 Producers' Award Provincetown International Film Festival 2000 Filmmaker on the Edge Award L.A. Outfest 2001 Outfest Achievement Award Independent Spirit Award 2003 Best Feature Far from Heaven National Board of Review 2003 Producers' Award

Christine Vachon (b. 1962, Manhattan, New York City) is an American movie producer active in the US independent film sector.

Christine Vachon produced Todd Haynes' controversial first feature, Poison, which was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the 1991 Sundance Film Festival. Since then, she has gone on to produce some of the most acclaimed American independent films including Far From Heaven (nominated for four Academy Awards), Boy's Don't Cry (Academy Award winner), One Hour Photo Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Happiness, Velvet Goldmine, SAFE, I Shot Andy Warhol, Go Fish, and Swoon.

1 Killer Films
2 Awards
3 Books
4 Filmography as producer
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Killer Films

Christine, along with partner Pamela Koffler, runs Killer Films. Killer celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2005 and was honored with a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.

Recent Killer releases include Todd Haynes's I'm Not There, starring Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Julianne Moore, and Michelle Williams. Cate Blanchett received both Academy Award and SAG Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress, and the film was also nominated for 4 Independent Spirit Awards, notching a Best Supporting Actress win for Cate Blanchett.

Killer’s releases for 2008 include Savage Grace, directed by Tom Kalin (Swoon) and starring Julianne Moore; An American Crime, starring Catherine Keener and Ellen Page, directed by Tommy O'Haver: Then She Found Me, the directorial debut of Helen Hunt, starring herself, Bette Midler, Colin Firth and Matthew Broderick.

[edit] Awards

In 1994, Vachon was awarded the Frameline^[1] for Award Outstanding Achievement in Lesbian and Gay Media.^{[citation needed]}
In 1996 Vachon was honored with the Muse Award for Outstanding Vision and Achievement by New York Women in Film and Television.
Vachon received the IFP’s 1999 Gotham Award for producing.^{[citation needed]}
For her work on Far from Heaven, Vachon was honored by the New York Film Critics Circle.^{[citation needed]}
Vachon received the 2003 Producers Award from the National Board of Review.^[1]
Vachon and Killer Films received the 2000 Provincetown Film Festival Provincetown Filmmaker on the Edge Award.^[1]
Vachon and Killer Films were given special tributes from the SXSW and Deauville Film Festivals.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Books

Christine's new book, "A KILLER LIFE: HOW AN INDEPENDENT FILM PRODUCER SURVIVES DEAL AND DISASTERS IN HOLLYWOOD AND BEYOND" was published in September 2006 by Simon and Schuster. Her first book, "SHOOTING TO KILL" was published in the fall of 1998 by Avon, and was a Los Angeles Times bestseller.