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Christine Vachon produced Todd Haynes’ controversial first feature, Poison, which was awarded the 1991 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize and video artist Tom Kalin’s first feature, Swoon. Vachon’s other film credits include Haynes’ Safe, starring Julianne Moore; Steve McLean’s Postcards From America; Nigel Finch’s Stonewall; and Mary Harron’s I Shot Andy Warhol, starring Lili Taylor, Jared Harris and Stephen Dorff. Vachon also served as executive producer on Rose Troche’s Go Fish and as co-producer on Larry Clark’s Kids. In 1996 Vachon and Pamela Koffler joined forces to create Killer Films and since then the company has produced numerous critically acclaimed films such as Kimberly Peirce’s Boys Don’t Cry, based on the Brandon Teena story. Newcomer Hilary Swank received both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for her poignant portrayal of Brandon Teena. Co-star Chloe Sevigny received a Golden Globe nomination for her performance as well as a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nomination. Other Killer Films credits include Todd Haynes’ Velvet Goldmine, starring Ewan McGregor, Jonathan Rhys-Myers and Christian Bale and Todd Solondz’s Happiness, starring Lara Flynn Boyle and Phillip Seymour Hoffman. The later film was awarded the prestigious Fipresci Critics prize at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. In 1994, Vachon was awarded the Frameline Award for Outstanding Achievement in Lesbian and Gay Media and in 1996 was awarded the prestigious Muse Award for Outstanding Vision and Achievement by New York Women in Film and Television. Most recently she received the IFP’s 1999 Gotham Award for producing. Currently, she is producing Todd Solondz’s latest film project as well as Mark Romanek’s feature film debut entitled One Hour Photo. Vachon’s best-selling book, "Shooting to Kill: How An Independent Producer Blasts Through the Barriers to Make Movies that Matter" was published in Fall 1998 by Avon and will be published in Spanish this spring.
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