Christine Vachon
Christine Vachon | |
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Born | 1962 (age 61–62) New York City, U.S. |
Alma mater | Brown University |
Occupation | Producer |
Years active | 1985–present |
Partner | Marlene McCarty |
Children | 1 |
Parent(s) | John Vachon Françoise Fourestier |
Christine Vachon (/væˈʃɒn/;[1] born November 21, 1962) is an American film producer active in the American independent film sector.[2][3]
Vachon produced
Vachon also participates as a member of the Jury for the
Early life
Vachon was born in Manhattan, New York City. She is the daughter of Françoise Fourestier and photographer John Vachon.[2]
Career
She graduated from
Killer Films
Vachon and fellow New York producer Pamela Koffler currently run Killer Films, which was established in 1996. The company celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2005 and was honored with a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.[5]
Her first feature
In 2008, Vachon won an Emmy for her role as executive producer for the TV adaptation of Ira Glass's This American Life.[citation needed]
Killer's releases for 2008 include Savage Grace, directed by Tom Kalin and starring Julianne Moore; An American Crime, starring Catherine Keener and Elliot 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.
Vachon continued her long-standing collaboration with Todd Haynes for the 2015 film, Carol.[6]
Vachon is the Artistic Director of the MFA Program at Stony Brook Manhattan.
Personal life
Vachon and her partner, artist Marlene McCarty, live in the East Village of New York with their daughter Guthrie. In the fall of 2009, Vachon went into remission after a battle with breast cancer.[2][7] She is related to the French costume designer, Sarah Monfort.
Awards and juries
Awards
- 1994: San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, Award Outstanding Achievement in Lesbian and Gay Media[citation needed]
- 1996: New York Women in Film and Television, Muse Award for Outstanding Vision and Achievement
- 1999: Gotham Award for producing[citation needed]
- 2000: Provincetown International Film Festival, Provincetown Filmmaker on the Edge Award to Vachon and Killer Films
- 2003: New York Film Critics Circle, Far from Heaven[citation needed]
- 2003: National Board of Review, Producers Award
- 2007: Woodstock Film Festival, Honorary Maverick Award[8]
- Vachon and Killer Films were given special tributes from the Deauville Film Festivals.[citation needed]
Juries
- 1993: Sundance Film Festival, dramatic jury member
- 2005: Venice Film Festival, jury member
- 2005: Sundance Film Festival, dramatic jury member
- 2010: Sarajevo Film Festival, jury member
- 2012: 60th San Sebastián International Film Festival, member and jury president
Filmography as producer
Director's name in brackets after film title.
- 1991: Poison (Todd Haynes)
- 1992: Swoon (Tom Kalin)
- 1994: Postcards from America (Steve McLean)
- 1994: Go Fish (Rose Troche) (as executive producer)
- 1995: Stonewall (Nigel Finch)
- 1995: Safe (Todd Haynes)
- 1995: Kids (Larry Clark)
- 1996: I Shot Andy Warhol (Mary Harron)
- 1997: Office Killer (Cindy Sherman)
- 1997: Kiss Me, Guido (Tony Vitale)
- 1998: Velvet Goldmine (Todd Haynes)
- 1998: I'm Losing You (Bruce Wagner)
- 1998: Happiness (Todd Solondz)
- 1999: Boys Don't Cry (Kimberly Peirce)
- 2000: Crime and Punishment in Suburbia (Rob Schmidt)
- 2001: Hedwig and the Angry Inch (John Cameron Mitchell)
- 2001: Series 7: The Contenders (Daniel Minahan)
- 2001: Women in Film (Bruce Wagner)
- 2001: Chelsea Walls (Ethan Hawke)
- 2001: Storytelling (Todd Solondz)
- 2002: One Hour Photo (Mark Romanek)
- 2001: The Grey Zone (Tim Blake Nelson)
- 2001: The Safety of Objects (Rose Troche)
- 2002: Far from Heaven (Todd Haynes)
- 2003: Party Monster(Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato)
- 2003: Camp (Todd Graff)
- 2003: The Company (Robert Altman)
- 2004: A Home at the End of the World (Michael Mayer)
- 2004: John Waters)
- 2005: The Notorious Bettie Page (Mary Harron)
- 2005: Mrs. Harris (Phyllis Nagy)
- 2006: Infamous (Douglas McGrath)
- 2007: This American Life (Ira Glass)
- 2007: An American Crime (Tommy O'Haver)
- 2007: I'm Not There (Todd Haynes)
- 2007: Then She Found Me (Helen Hunt)
- 2008: Savage Grace (Tom Kalin)
- 2008: Gigantic(Matt Aselton)
- 2009: Motherhood (Katherine Dieckmann)
- 2009: Cracks (Jordan Scott)
- 2009: Cairo Time (Ruba Nadda)
- 2010: Lulu at the Hotel (short) (Maya Kazan)
- 2010: Loop Planes (short) (Robin Wilby)
- 2010: Charley (short) (Dee Austin Robertson)
- 2010: Dirty Girl (Abe Sylvia)
- 2010: What's Wrong with Virginia (Dustin Lance Black)
- 2010: Lullaby for Pi (Benoit Philippon)
- 2013: Deep Powder (Mo Ogordnik)
- 2013: The Last of Robin Hood (Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer)
- 2013: Innocence (Hilary Brougher)
- 2014: Still Alice (Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer)
- 2015: Nasty Baby (Sebastián Silva)
- 2015: Carol (Todd Haynes)
- 2016: Goat (Andrew Neel)
- 2016: Wiener-Dog (Todd Solondz)
- 2016: White Girl (Elizabeth Wood)
- 2016: A Kind of Murder (Andy Goddard)
- 2016: Matthew Ross) (as executive producer)
- 2017: Dina (Dan Sickels & Antonio Santini)
- 2017: Lemon (Janicza Bravo)
- 2017: Where Is Kyra? (Andrew Dosunmu)
- 2017: Beatriz at Dinner (Miguel Arteta)
- 2017: Wonderstruck (Todd Haynes)
- 2017: First Reformed (Paul Schrader)
- 2017: Mercy(Tali Shalom-Ezer)
- 2018: Colette (Wash Westmoreland)
- 2018: Vox Lux (Brady Corbet)
- 2019: Dark Waters (Todd Haynes)
- 2020: Zola (Janicza Bravo)
- 2020: Shirley (Josephine Decker)
- 2020: The World to Come (Mona Fastvold)
- 2020: Brothers by Blood (Jeremie Guez)
- 2021: Pride(documentary series)
- 2021: The Velvet Underground (Todd Haynes)
- 2022: Billy Porter)
- 2023: Past Lives (Celine Song)
- 2023: She Came to Me (Rebecca Miller)
- 2023: Bleeding Love (Emma Westenberg)
- 2023: A Good Person (Zach Braff)
- 2023: May December (Todd Haynes)
- 2024: A Different Man (Aaron Schimberg)
- TBA: On Swift Horses (Daniel Minahan)
Works and publications
- OCLC 801262187
- Vachon, Christine, and OCLC 793342718
- Vachon, Christine, and Austin Bunn. A Killer Life: How an Independent Film Producer Survives Deals and Disasters in Hollywood and Beyond. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006. OCLC 238812473 2007 Limelight Edition.
References
- ^ "Brit Marling". Killer/Hope: Live at Sundance. Digital Artists. February 1, 2011. Retrieved June 9, 2022.
- ^ a b c Buckley, Cara (November 6, 2009). "When Being Home Is an Adventure". The New York Times.
- ^ Galloway, Stephen; Belloni, Matthew (December 11, 2015). "Watch THR's Full, Uncensored Producer Roundtable With Ice Cube, Steve Golin and More". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 25, 2016.
- ^ "NYICFF Jury". Gkids.com.
- Indiewire. Retrieved January 25, 2016.
- ^ Abramovitch, Seth (September 25, 2015). "Killer Films' Co-Founders Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler on Lesbian Romance 'Carol' and Indie Resilience". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 25, 2016.
- ^ Dietrich, Joy (July 6, 2010). "Asked & Answered". The New York Times. Retrieved July 6, 2010.
- ^ "AND THE 2007 WINNERS ARE..." Woodstock Film Festival. 2007.
External links
- Christine Vachon at IMDb
- Killer Films
- Christine Vachon (February 24, 2017). Film-makers can defy Trump. Depicting the lives of others is an act of resistance. The Guardian