Killer Films

Killer Films
Entertainment
Industry Films
Founded 1995
Headquarters New York City, New York
Key people
 Christine Vachon
Pamela Koffler
David Hinojosa

Killer Films is a New York City-based independent film production company founded by movie producers Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler in 1995. The company has produced a number of the most acclaimed American independent films over the past two decades including Far From Heaven (nominated for four Academy Awards), Boys Don't Cry (Academy Award winner), One Hour Photo, Kids, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Happiness, Velvet Goldmine, Safe, I Shot Andy Warhol, Swoon, I'm Not There (Academy Award nominated) and Kill Your Darlings. Killer Films executive produced Todd Haynes’ five episode HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce featuring Kate Winslet and Guy Pearce, which went on to win five Emmys, a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

In 2014, Killer Films merged with Glass Elevator Media to form Killer Content, Inc.[1] Recently, Killer Films wrapped production on the Todd Haynes-directed film Carol, based on the 1952 romance novel, The Price of Salt, written by Patricia Highsmith. The film stars Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara. It was released in 2015.

In 2015, Julianne Moore won the Best Performance by an Actress Oscar for her part in the 2014 Killer film Still Alice, directed by Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer, based on the novel of the same name, written by Lisa Genova. The film was released in 2015, starring Moore, Kristen Stewart, and Alec Baldwin.

Awards and recognition

Killer’s films have received multiple awards and nominations from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, the Emmy Awards, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and the Independent Spirit Awards. On the occasion of Killer’s 10th anniversary in 2005, the company was feted with a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.[2]

Christine Vachon’s first feature production, Poison, directed by Todd Haynes, won the Grand Jury Prize at the 1991 Sundance Film Festival. Poison was one of the defining films of the emerging New Queer Cinema.[3][4][5] For her work on Far From Heaven, another Todd Haynes collaboration, Vachon was honored by the New York Film Critics Circle, and received the Producer of the Year Award from the National Board of Review.[6]

Vachon produced the Showtime television show of NPR’s This American Life, for which she won an Emmy. In 2011, Christine was invited to give the State of Cinema Address at the San Francisco Film Society’s 54th San Francisco International Film Festival.[7]

Vachon has also written two books on her life and career, Shooting to Kill (1998) and A Killer Life (2006).

One of Killer's most recent films, Kill Your Darlings, directed by John Krokidas, and starred Daniel Radcliffe and Dane DeHaan, was selected for the Sundance Film Festival and went on to be nominated for the Grand Jury Prize.

Upcoming projects

After producing Magic Magic, which debuted at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival to wide acclaim, Killer re-teamed with writer-director Sebastián Silva on his new feature, Nasty Baby, which was set to release in 2014.

Killer films is currently in pre-production of the Douglas McGrath film, Brooklyn Bridge, starring Daniel Radcliffe as Washington Roebling.[8]

Also in the works is Todd Haynes’ upcoming drama and writer-director Andrew Neel’s follow-up to King Kelly.[9]

Selected filmography

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Killer Films Merges With Glass Elevator Media to Form Killer Content". The Hollywood Reporter. May 27, 2014. Retrieved September 27, 2015.
  2. ↑ MoMA | Swoon: Ten Years of Killer Films
  3. ↑ "Killer Films’ Co-Founders Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler on Lesbian Romance ‘Carol’ and Indie Resilience". The Hollywood Reporter. September 25, 2015. Retrieved September 27, 2015.
  4. ↑ Levy, Emanuel (June 27, 2015). "Gay Pride 2015: Celebrating Todd Haynes’ Poison". EmmanuelLevy. Retrieved July 11, 2015.
  5. ↑ Dillard, Clayton (April 3, 2013). "Hearth of Darkness: Rob White's Todd Haynes". Slant Magazine. Retrieved July 11, 2015.
  6. ↑ "Christine Vachon Bio". HBO. Retrieved September 27, 2015.
  7. ↑ San Francisco Film Society: http://sffs.org/content.aspx?catid=0&pageid=2134&TitleId=
  8. ↑ "Daniel Radcliffe to Star in ‘Brooklyn Bridge’". Variety. January 22, 2014. Retrieved September 27, 2015.
  9. ↑ "King Kelly: Interview With Director Andrew Neel". WhatCulture.com. Retrieved 2016-05-04.

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