Christine Vachon

Producer, Shirley

Christine Vachon is a Film Independent Spirit Award-winning producer. She has been lauded for her career filmmaking with the Producer Award from the Gotham Independent Film Awards.

She co-founded, with Pamela Koffler, the impactful independent film and television production company Killer Films in 1995. Killer’s Oscar-winning films have included Kimberly Peirce’s Boys Don’t Cry and Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland’s Still Alice. Its Oscar-nominated films have included Todd Haynes’ Carol, I’m Not There and Far from Heaven. The latter swept the Film Independent Spirit Awards, winning five including Best Actress (Julianne Moore), Best Director and Best Feature. In her capacity as producer, Ms. Vachon has most recently been nominated in the Spirit Awards’ Best Feature category for First Reformed; the film also garnered an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay, among other honors.