Christine Vachon
Commanding the Cultural Zeitgeist with The Killer Films Co-Founder
Christine Vachon is an Independent Spirit Award and Gotham Award winner who co-founded indie powerhouse Killer Films with partner Pamela Koffler in 1995.
Over the past two decades they have produced over 100 films, including some of the most celebrated American indie features: Carol (nominated for six Academy Awards), Far from Heaven (nominated for four Academy Awards), Still Alice (Academy Award winner), Boys Don’t Cry (Academy Award winner), One Hour Photo, KIDS, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Happiness, Velvet Goldmine, Safe, I Shot Andy Warhol, and I’m Not There (Academy Award nominee).
In television, Vachon executive-produced the Emmy and Golden Globe-awarded miniseries Mildred Pierce for HBO as well as Z: The Beginning of Everything for Amazon Studios. Killer Films recently produced such films as Paul Schrader’s First Reformed, Todd Haynes' Dark Waters, and Josephine Decker's Shirley.
Upcoming releases include Janicza Bravo's Zola to be distributed by A24, and Pride, a six-part documentary series produced with Refinery 29 for FX.
She has an illustrious and highly lauded career spanning thirty years and continues to churn out zeitgeist-shifting films at every turn.
A self-proclaimed pragmatist, opportunist, and hustler, Christine possesses the special alchemy of an inherent producer and does her part in sharing it with the world.
In this special episode, we discuss her enduring relationships with partner Pamela Koffler and director Todd Haynes, the “veiled promise” of disruption, how to sustain a life as an independent producer, why Christine is a forward-thinker, and the importance of not dwelling on the ‘what-could-have-beens’ but to look to the ‘what could be’s.’
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“Disruption brings opportunity; even while it destroys some, it brings some. Figuring out your way through defining that opportunity is almost like a whole other layer.”
- Chrstine vachon
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