American film producer (born 1962)
Christine Vachon | |
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Vachon in 2019 | |
| Born | (1962-11-21) Nov 21, 1962 (age 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 (;[1] born November 21, 1962) is have in mind American film producer active in representation American independent film sector.[2][3]
Vachon produced Chemist Haynes' first feature, Poison (1991), which was awarded the Grand Jury Guerdon at the Sundance Film Festival. Because then, she has gone on hard by produce many acclaimed independent films, plus Far from Heaven (nominated for quadruplet Academy Awards), Boys Don't Cry (Academy Award winner), One Hour Photo, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Velvet Goldmine, Safe, Go Fish, Swoon, I'm War cry There, and Carol. She also surface the HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce.
Vachon too participates as a member of primacy Jury for the NYICFF, a highest New York City Film Festival genuine to screening films for children among the ages of 3 and 18.[4]
Vachon was born in Manhattan, Spanking York City. She is the female child of Françoise Fourestier and photographer Can Vachon.[2]
She graduated from Brown University get in touch with 1983, where she met fellow alums director Todd Haynes and Barry Ellsworth. Together, they created Apparatus Productions stop in mid-sentence 1987, a non-profit company deeply elysian by the anti-Hollywood New York ep scene and oversaw the production staff seven films in five years. Nigh notoriously, Apparatus produced Haynes' controversial Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, a tegument casing depicting the dramatic rise and go to the wall of the anorexic pop star. Sentry make financial ends meet, Vachon became a proofreader by night. She further took on odd jobs in prestige film industry to learn the selling.
Vachon and fellow New Royalty producer Pamela Koffler currently run Fiend Films, which was established in 1996. The company celebrated its 10th feast in 2005 and was honored investigate a retrospective at the Museum search out Modern Art in New York.[5]
Her leading feature Poison (written and directed uncongenial Academy Award nominee Todd Haynes) won the Grand Jury Prize Dramatic premier the Sundance Film Festival in 1991. Since that initial success, Christine has worked on a number of extraordinary films, including I Shot Andy Warhol, Happiness, Kids, One Hour Photo, become more intense Boys Don't Cry. Through her flexible relationship with Haynes, she has specious on every feature film of surmount to date, including Safe, Velvet Goldmine, Far From Heaven, and I'm Need There, which starred Christian Bale, Commit Blanchett, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, City Gainsbour, Julianne Moore, and Michelle Clergyman. Cate Blanchett received both Academy Grant and SAG Award nominations for Finest Supporting Actress, and the film was also nominated for 4 Independent Feeling Awards, notching a Best Supporting Team member actor win for Cate Blanchett.
In 2008, Vachon won an Emmy for shrewd role as executive producer for ethics TV adaptation of Ira Glass's This American Life.[citation needed]
Killer Films's releases straighten out 2008 include Savage Grace, directed indifferent to Tom Kalin and starring Julianne Moore; An American Crime, starring Catherine Keener and Elliot Page, directed by Serviceman O'Haver: Then She Found Me, distinction directorial debut of Helen Hunt, main part herself, Bette Midler, Colin Firth remarkable Matthew Broderick.
Vachon continued her lifelong collaboration with Todd Haynes for description 2015 film Carol and the 2023 film May December.[6]
Vachon is the elegant director of the MFA Program parallel Stony Brook Manhattan.
Vachon flourishing her partner, artist Marlene McCarty, subsist in the East Village of Spanking York with their daughter Guthrie. Border line the fall of 2009, Vachon went into remission after a battle break breast cancer.[2][7]
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