Arts & Entertainment
Killer Films Producer Accepts Career Award at Stony Brook Film Festival
Christine Vachon recently joined Stony Brook Southampton's Art faculty to teach a new graduate program.
Stony Brook Film Festival focused its spotlight on a film producer who not only continues to produce award-winning features, but is teaching the next generation.
Alan Inkles, founder and director of the Stony Brook Film Festival, presented a Career Achievement Award to indie film producer Christine Vachon of Killer Films on Friday night, prior to a 7 p.m. screening of her film "Deep Powder." It is the first award of its type presented by the festival in several years.
"In the 25 years she's been at this business, she's probably done more than more than most filmmakers combined in a half a dozen lifetimes," Inkles said.
Vachon, "a legendary producer and indie film powerhouse," has produced more than 70 films over the last 20 years, including 8 in the last year alone. Some of her more notable films include "Far from Heaven" which received four Academy Award nominations, "Boys Don't Cry" featuring Chloe Sevigny and Academy Award Winner Hilary Swank, and "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" which was shown at the Sundance Film Festival.
"Killer Films is widely considered the most prolific U.S. independent film company in America today, and certainly over the last 20 years," Inkles said.
A montage of Vachon's works was shown at the award presentation. Brief shorts were shown from "Poison," "Happiness" and her most noteworthy clips.
"We've been making movies that push the envelop, movies that are provacative," Vachon said.
In accepting the Career Achievement Award, Vachon thanked Pam Koffler, as the other integral part of the team behind Killer Films.
Vachon has recently joined the staff of Stony Brook Southampton's Art faculty to establish a new graduate program in film called "20/20/20." It is a scholarship program that takes 20 up and coming filmmakers 20 days to produce 20 short films.
As the new program is currently wrapping up, Vachon says she hopes to be able to share some of the results from the program with film festival goers next year.
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