Christine Vachon

Christine Vachon is an American film producer and co-founder of Killer Films, the production company behind some of the most significant American independent and queer films of the past three decades. A defining force of the New Queer Cinema movement, she produced Todd Haynes's Poison (1991) and Velvet Goldmine (1998) as well as Swoon (1992), Boys Don't Cry (1999), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001), Far from Heaven (2002), I'm Not There (2007), and Carol (2015), among many others. She has been openly lesbian throughout her career and wrote Shooting to Kill (1998), a celebrated memoir-manual about independent film producing. Through Killer Films, Vachon has championed trans, queer, and outsider stories with a consistency few producers have matched, making her one of the most powerful forces for LGBTQ+ storytelling in American cinema.