Producer Christine Vachon and Director Tommy O'Haver
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- Updated: 09 Sep 2014
CHRISTINE VACHON (Producer) is an Independent Spirit Award and Gotham Award winner who co-founded indie powerhouse Killer Films with partner Pamela Koffler in 1995. Based out of New York, Vachon has produced more than 60 acclaimed independent films including Todd Haynes' Venice Film Festival Award-winning I'm Not There as well as Haynes' controversial first feature, Poison, which was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the 1991 Sundance Film Festival.
Since then, she has gone on to produce some of the most celebrated American indies including, Academy Award® winning films Far From Heaven, Boys Don't Cry, One Hour Photo, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Happiness, Safe, and I Shot Andy Warhol in. Recent project include Dirty Girl, Cairo Time, Cracks, Then She Found Me, Savage Grace and Dragonslayer, which won Best Documentary at SXSW 2011. In television, Vachon executive produced the Emmy®-winning program, This American Life, for Showtime and produced the Golden Globe-winning miniseries, Mildred Pierce for HBO. As a producer, she's received numerous awards and honors including the LA Outfest Achievement Award (2001), IFP's Gotham Award (1999) and the National Board of Review's Producers Award (2003).
In 2005, Killer Films was honored with a ten-year retrospective by New York's Museum of Modern Art. In 1998, Christine released her first book, Shooting to Kill, in which she details and dissects the intricate process of creating films, while injecting personal anecdotes and stories. Her most recent book, Killer Life: How an Independent Film Producer Survives Deals and Disasters in Hollywood and Beyond, was published in 2006 by Simon and Schuster.
TOMMY O'HAVER is an American film director and screenwriter. He grew up in Carmel, Indiana, a suburb of Indianapolis. He graduated from Indiana University with a degree in Journalism and Comparative Literature. In the mid-1990s, he attended the MFA Film program at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. While there, he directed shorts that appeared at major festivals, including Sundance and The New York Film Festival.
Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss, featuring Sean Hayes, was O'Haver's directorial debut. Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss played in competition at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. Get Over It starred Kirsten Dunst, Ben Foster, Mila Kunis and Zoe Saldana in a teen comedy about a school theater production. O'Haver's third film, Ella Enchanted, featured Anne Hathaway. Catherine Keener, Ellen Page and James Franco star in An American Crime, which premiered at Sundance in 2007, a film based on a true story about an Indiana woman charged in 1965 with the murder of her neighbor's daughter. O'Haver and his writing partner, Irene Turner, were nominated for a Writer's Guild Award for the film as well.
O'Haver is the Director in Residence at DePaul University.
Moderated by
Jonah Zeiger, Assistant Professor
School of Cinema & Interactive Media, DePaul University
Recorded: Friday, April 20, 2012
Producer Jonah Zeiger
Production Stage Manager Stephanie Clemons
Floor Manager Amanda Pfliedger
Theatre Manager & Media Operator Chris Vinopal
Audio Supervisor Rob Steel
Video Supervisor Sharon Mooney
Video Director Matt Lloyd
Camera Operators Peg Bang, Nick Serpico
Miguel Torres,
Apprentice Video Directors Michael Battista, Miguel Torres
Key Sound Derek Katzer
Sound Crew
Still Photographer Lucas Cellars
House Manager
Running Crew / Ushers
Editor Nick Schmidt
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CHRISTINE VACHON (Producer) is an Independent Spirit Award and Gotham Award winner who co-founded indie powerhouse Killer Films with partner Pamela Koffler in 1995. Based out of New York, Vachon has produced more than 60 acclaimed independent films including Todd Haynes' Venice Film Festival Award-winning I'm Not There as well as Haynes' controversial first feature, Poison, which was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the 1991 Sundance Film Festival.
Since then, she has gone on to produce some of the most celebrated American indies including, Academy Award® winning films Far From Heaven, Boys Don't Cry, One Hour Photo, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Happiness, Safe, and I Shot Andy Warhol in. Recent project include Dirty Girl, Cairo Time, Cracks, Then She Found Me, Savage Grace and Dragonslayer, which won Best Documentary at SXSW 2011. In television, Vachon executive produced the Emmy®-winning program, This American Life, for Showtime and produced the Golden Globe-winning miniseries, Mildred Pierce for HBO. As a producer, she's received numerous awards and honors including the LA Outfest Achievement Award (2001), IFP's Gotham Award (1999) and the National Board of Review's Producers Award (2003).
In 2005, Killer Films was honored with a ten-year retrospective by New York's Museum of Modern Art. In 1998, Christine released her first book, Shooting to Kill, in which she details and dissects the intricate process of creating films, while injecting personal anecdotes and stories. Her most recent book, Killer Life: How an Independent Film Producer Survives Deals and Disasters in Hollywood and Beyond, was published in 2006 by Simon and Schuster.
TOMMY O'HAVER is an American film director and screenwriter. He grew up in Carmel, Indiana, a suburb of Indianapolis. He graduated from Indiana University with a degree in Journalism and Comparative Literature. In the mid-1990s, he attended the MFA Film program at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. While there, he directed shorts that appeared at major festivals, including Sundance and The New York Film Festival.
Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss, featuring Sean Hayes, was O'Haver's directorial debut. Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss played in competition at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. Get Over It starred Kirsten Dunst, Ben Foster, Mila Kunis and Zoe Saldana in a teen comedy about a school theater production. O'Haver's third film, Ella Enchanted, featured Anne Hathaway. Catherine Keener, Ellen Page and James Franco star in An American Crime, which premiered at Sundance in 2007, a film based on a true story about an Indiana woman charged in 1965 with the murder of her neighbor's daughter. O'Haver and his writing partner, Irene Turner, were nominated for a Writer's Guild Award for the film as well.
O'Haver is the Director in Residence at DePaul University.
Moderated by
Jonah Zeiger, Assistant Professor
School of Cinema & Interactive Media, DePaul University
Recorded: Friday, April 20, 2012
Producer Jonah Zeiger
Production Stage Manager Stephanie Clemons
Floor Manager Amanda Pfliedger
Theatre Manager & Media Operator Chris Vinopal
Audio Supervisor Rob Steel
Video Supervisor Sharon Mooney
Video Director Matt Lloyd
Camera Operators Peg Bang, Nick Serpico
Miguel Torres,
Apprentice Video Directors Michael Battista, Miguel Torres
Key Sound Derek Katzer
Sound Crew
Still Photographer Lucas Cellars
House Manager
Running Crew / Ushers
Editor Nick Schmidt
- published: 09 Sep 2014
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