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Christine Vachon (b. 1962, Manhattan, New York City) is an American movie producer known for producing challenging, independent films that are also commercially successful. Vachon came to prominence as the producer of a number of films with a queer theme in the early 1990s, and has been called the godmother of New Queer Cinema, although she resists the title.

Christine produced Todd 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 acclaimed American independent films including Far From Heaven (nominated for four Academy Awards), Boys Don't Cry (Academy Award winner), One Hour Photo, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Happiness, Velvet Goldmine, Safe, I Shot Andy Warhol, Go Fish, and Swoon. Christine, along with partners Pamela Koffler and Katie Roumel, runs Killer Films. Killer celebrated its 10th anniversary this past fall and was honored with a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.

Vachon also co-wrote (with David Edelstein) a guide to low-budget film-making, Shooting to Kill: How an Independent Producer Blasts Through the Barriers to Make Movies That Matter, ISBN 0-380-79854-9. Her latest book, A Killer Life: How an Independent Film Producer Survives Deals and Disasters in Hollywood and Beyond, ISBN 0-7432-5630-1, is due to be released in September 2006. She graduated from Brown University.

Selected films as producer

Director's name in brackets after film title.

• 2006: Infamous (Douglas McGrath)
• 2006: Mrs. Harris (Phyllis Nagy)
• 2006: The Notorious Bettie Page (Mary Harron)
• 2004: A Dirty Shame (John Waters)
• 2004: A Home at the End of the World (Michael Mayer)
• 2003: The Company (Robert Altman)
• 2003: Camp (Todd Graff)
• 2003: Party Monster (Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato)
• 2002: Far from Heaven (Todd Haynes)
• 2002: One Hour Photo (Mark Romanek)
• 2001: Storytelling (Todd Solondz)
• 2001: Hedwig and the Angry Inch (John Cameron Mitchell)
• 1999: Boys Don't Cry (Kimberly Peirce)
• 1998: Velvet Goldmine (Todd Haynes)
• 1998: Happiness (Todd Solondz)
• 1996: I Shot Andy Warhol (Mary Harron)
• 1995: Kids (Larry Clark)
• 1995: Safe (Todd Haynes)
• 1995: Stonewall (Nigel Finch)
• 1994: (as executive producer) Go Fish (Rose Troche)
• 1992: Swoon (Tom Kalin)
• 1991: Poison (Todd Haynes)

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