
Born 1962
LNew York City, New York, USA
Christine Vachon is an American lesbian film producer and co-founder of Killer Films, the production company responsible for some of the most significant American independent and queer films of the past three decades, including Boys Don't Cry (1999), Far from Heaven (2002), Carol (2015), I'm Not There (2007), and many others. She has been openly lesbian throughout her career and wrote a memoir, Shooting to Kill (1998), about independent film production. Vachon has been one of the most powerful forces for LGBTQ+ storytelling in American cinema.