You are viewing the archive: “Christine Vachon”

2012 Sundance: Fest Veterans Returning With New Work

By BRIAN BROOKS | Friday January 20, 2012 @ 10:25pm PSTTags: 2012 Sundance Film Festival, Christine Vachon, Joe Berlinger, Kirby Dick, Sean Durkin

As part of our Sundance kickoff, Deadline posted a list of the famous and about-to-be-famous whose films are premiering at the festival. Now with the first full day of the event underway, I’m spotlighting a dozen Sundance veterans who have new work screening this year:

Christine Vachon, executive producer Shut Up And Play The Hits — It’s hard to imagine Sundance or even independent film without this producing tour de force. Her credits include I Shot Andy Warhol, Happiness, Velvet Goldmine, Boys Don’t Cry, Far From Heaven and many others. For this year’s edition she’s executive producing along with Keith Wood and The Creators Project on a doc spotlighting LCD Soundsystem’s final show at Madison Square Garden featuring an intimate portrait of James Murphy and his lead-up to the final concert.

Mary Jane Skalski, producer Hello I Must Be Going — Skalski has also made an indelible mark on the Sundance landscape with films stretching back into the ’90s. This century her Sundance portfolio includes The Station Agent, Mysterious Skin, The Hawk Is Dying and last year’s Pariah and Win Win. She returns as producer on Todd Louiso’s competition feature Hello I Must Be Going about a down-and-out 35-year-old woman who finds solace from a 19-year-old boy after returning home to live with her parents.

Eugene Jarecki, director of The House I Live In — Jarecki previously has taken on America’s conflicts abroad, but now turns the lens on the war on drugs which has cost 45 million arrests over four decades — making America the world’s top jailer. Jarecki’s first short, Seasons Of The Lifterbees debuted at Sundance in 1993. He won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize and a Peabody Award for 2005′s Why We Fight and premiered his HBO doc Reagan at the festival last year.

Paul Dano, executive producer/actor in For Ellen — Dano may be a name in a good number of households following his stints in Fast Food Nation, There Will Be Blood and Meek’s Cutoff. In 2006, Little Miss Sunshine took Sundance by storm, in which he starred along with then-newcomer Abigail Breslin. He’s back again, starring in and executive producing For Ellen directed by So Yong Kim (also a Sundance vet who took a Special Jury Prize for In Between Days at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival). Dano plays Joby, a struggling musician who takes an overnight long-distance drive to fight his estranged wife for custody of their young daughter.
Read More »

Comments (5)

AFM: Killer Films And ‘Margin Call’ Producers Launch ‘Imperial Palace’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday November 2, 2011 @ 10:17am PDTTags: Christine Vachon, Pam Koffler, Zachary Quinto
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Killer Films’ Christine Vachon and Pam Koffler are teaming with Margin Call producers Zachary Quinto, Neal Dodson and Corey Moosa’s Before The Door banner on Imperial Palace, a love story written and to be directed by Victor Quinaz. The … Read More »

Comments (2)

HBO Reunites ‘Mildred Pierce’ Team For Drama Project That May Star Julianne Moore

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday August 15, 2011 @ 11:00am PDTTags: Christine Vachon, HBO, John Wells, Julianne Moore, Todd Haynes
Nellie Andreeva

Mildred Pierce executive producer and director Todd Haynes has re-teamed with the HBO miniseries’ executive producers John Wells and Christine Vachon for another period HBO project … Read More »

Comments (13)

Killer Films, Moxie Pictures Team On Management Startup

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday January 12, 2011 @ 8:17am PSTTags: Christine Vachon, Killer Films, Movie Deals, Movies, Pam Koffler
Mike Fleming

Killer Films, the venerable Gotham-based indie film company run by Christine Vachon and Pam Koffler, has teamed with Moxie Pictures’ Dan Levinson and Robert Fernandez to form KillerMoxie Management. The bicoastal shingle, repping indie-minded filmmakers, actors and recording artists, will be steered by Brian Young. He has left Untitled Entertainment … Read More »

Comments 20

UK’s Bankside Signs Deal With Killer Films

By TIM ADLER in London | Friday September 10, 2010 @ 8:51am PDTTags: Christine Vachon, Killer Films, Mildred Pierce, Pam Koffler

The London-based sales agent has closed a first-look deal with the indie New York-based producer. Bankside Films will have an exclusive first option to co-finance, and, where appropriate, executive produce movies with indie doyennes Christine Vachon and Pam Koffler. Projects covered include Read More »

Comments (11)