Killer Films is a New York City-based

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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'', ''

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'', '' Happiness'', '' Velvet Goldmine'', ''

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'', '' I Shot Andy Warhol'', ''

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'', '' I'm Not There'' (Academy Award nominated), '' Kill Your Darlings'', ''

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'' (Academy Award winner) and '' Carol'' (nominated for six Academy Awards). Killer Films executive produced Todd Haynes' five episode

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'' Mildred Pierce'' featuring

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and Guy Pearce, which went on to win five Emmys, a

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and a

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. In 2014, Killer Films merged with Glass Elevator Media to form Killer Content, Inc.

Awards and recognition

''Killer Films'' productions have received multiple awards and nominations from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, the

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, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and the

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. On the occasion of Killer's 10th anniversary in 2005, the company was feted with a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. Christine Vachon's first feature production, ''Poison'', directed by Todd Haynes, won the Grand Jury Prize at the 1991

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. ''Poison'' was one of the defining films of the emerging New Queer Cinema. 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. Vachon produced the

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television adaptation of the public broadcasting radio program, ''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. 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

and went on to be nominated for the Grand Jury Prize. After producing ''Magic Magic'', which debuted at the

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to wide acclaim, Killer re-teamed with writer-director Sebastián Silva on his new feature, '' Nasty Baby''. In 2015, Julianne Moore won the Best Performance by an Actress Oscar for her part in the 2014 Killer film ''

'', directed by Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer, based on the novel of the same name, written by Lisa Genova. That same year, Killer re-teamed with director Todd Haynes on '' Carol'', based on the 1952 romance novel, '' The Price of Salt'', written by Patricia Highsmith. The film stars

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and Rooney Mara. In 2017, the company produced Janicza Bravo's '' Lemon'' starring Brett Gelman and Judy Greer; '' Beatriz at Dinner'' starring Salma Hayek and

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; and ''Dina'' directed by Dan Sickles & Antonio Santini, the latter of three winning the Documentary Grand Jury Prize at the

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. In May 2017, the company signed a two-year first look deal with Amazon Studios.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

Killer Content
website * Christine Vachon (February 24, 2017)
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