A Killer Life - How an Independent Film Producer Survives Deals & Disasters in Hollywood & Beyond by Christine Vachon
This is a no-holds barred account of a filmmaker who looks straight into the eye of the Hollywood blockbuster storm and dares not to blink.A Killer Life presents readers with a behind-the-scenes memoir of the battle between creativity and commerce - and a renegade's rise to being one of the most powerful female producers in independent film today. It traces the early years Vachon spent producing such controversial and critically acclaimed movies as Happiness, and Kids, films that paved the way for Academy Award-winning triumphs like Boys Don't Cry.She recounts the birth and rise of independent film revealing the stories behind star castings and firings and films that never got made; and how the often unhappy bedfellows of finance and creativity affect what we get to see on the big screen.
Vachon, Christine: - Christine Vachon has emerged over the last ten years as one of the key leaders of the New York independent film movement. She lives in New York City, where she heads her own company, Killer Films.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780743256308 |
| ISBN 10 | 0743256301 |
| Title | A Killer Life - How an Independent Film Producer Survives Deals & Disasters in Hollywood & Beyond |
| Author | Christine Vachon |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
| Year published | 2007-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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