Killer Films

Killer Films
Entertainment
Industry Films
Founded 1995
Headquarters New York City, New York
Key people
 Christine Vachon
Pamela Koffler
David Hinojosa

Killer Films is a New York City-based independent film production company founded by movie producers Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler in 1995. The company has produced a number of the most acclaimed American independent films over the past two decades including Far From Heaven (nominated for four Academy Awards), Boys Don't Cry (Academy Award winner), One Hour Photo, Kids, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Happiness, Velvet Goldmine, Safe, I Shot Andy Warhol, Swoon, I'm Not There (Academy Award nominated) and Kill Your Darlings. Killer Films executive produced Todd Haynes’ five episode HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce featuring Kate Winslet and Guy Pearce, which went on to win five Emmys, a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

Most recently, Killer wrapped production on the Todd Haynes directed film, Carol, based on the 1952 romance novel, The Price of Salt, written by Patricia Highsmith. The film is starring Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett. Release is set for 2015.[1]

Killer has also recently started post production on the film Still Alice, directed by Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer, based on the novel of the same name, written by Lisa Genova. The film is set to be released in 2015, Starring Julianne Moore, Kristen Stewart, and Alec Baldwin.[2]

Awards and Recognition

Killer’s films have received multiple awards and nominations from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, the Emmy Awards, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and the Independent Spirit Awards. On the occasion of Killer’s 10th anniversary in 2005, the company was feted with a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.[3]

Christine Vachon’s first feature production, Poison, directed by Todd Haynes, won the Grand Jury Prize at the 1991 Sundance Film Festival. For her work on Far From Heaven, another Todd Haynes collaboration, Vachon was honored by the New York Film Critics Circle, and received the Producer of the Year Award from the National Board of Review.[4]

Vachon produced the Showtime television show of NPR’s This American Life, for which she won an Emmy. In 2011, Christine was invited to give the State of Cinema Address at the San Francisco Film Society’s 54th San Francisco International Film Festival.[5]

Vachon has also written two books on her life and career, Shooting to Kill (1998) and A Killer Life (2006).

Killer's most recent film, 'Kill Your Darlings", directed by John Krokidas, and starred Daniel Radcliffe and Dane DeHaan, was selected for the Sundance Film Festival and went on to be nominated for the Grand Jury Prize.[6]

Upcoming projects

After producing Magic Magic, which debuted at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival to wide acclaim, Killer is re-teaming with writer-director Sebastián Silva on his new feature, Nasty Baby, set to release in 2014.[7]

Killer films is currently in pre-production of the Douglas McGrath film, "Brooklyn Bridge", starring Daniel Radcliffe as Washington Roebling.[8][9]

Killer is currently developing Todd Haynes’ upcoming drama and writer-director Andrew Neel’s follow-up to King Kelly.[10]

Selected filmography

References

  1. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2402927/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
  2. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3316960/?ref_=nv_sr_1
  3. ↑ MoMA | Swoon: Ten Years of Killer Films
  4. ↑ Christine Vachon Bio
  5. ↑ San Francisco Film Society: http://sffs.org/content.aspx?catid=0&pageid=2134&TitleId=
  6. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1311071/awards?ref_=tt_awd
  7. ↑ "Nasty Baby". IMDb page. Retrieved 13 January 2014.
  8. ↑ http://variety.com/2014/film/news/daniel-radcliffe-to-star-in-brooklyn-bridge-1201066469/
  9. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3486462/?ref_=nv_sr_1
  10. ↑ http://whatculture.com/film/king-kelly-interview-with-director-andrew-neel.php

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