Shooting to Kill: How an Independent Producer Blasts Through the Barriers to Make Movies that Matter. This item is unavailable.Shooting to Kill: How an Independent Producer Blasts Through the Barriers to Make Movies that Matter

Hailed by "The New York Times" as the "godmother to the politically committed film" and by "Interview" as a true "auteur producer, " Christine Vachon has made her name with such bold, controversial, and commercially successful films as 'Poison, ' 'Swoon, ' 'Kids, ' 'Safe, ' 'I Shot Andy Warhol, ' and 'Velvet Goldmine, ' Over the last decade, she has become a driving force behind the most daring and strikingly original independent filmmakers -- from Todd Haynes to Tom Kalin and Mary Harron -- and helped put them on the map.

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.