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Karlovy Vary Film Festival

Christine Vachon, interview with member of the Crystal Globe Competition jury at Karlovy Vary IFF

todayJuly 11, 2024

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Producer Christine Vachon, a legend in independent American cinema and a member of the Crystal Globe jury of the 58th KVIFF, tells us about this and that, and more.

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    Christine Vachon, interview with member of the Crystal Globe Competition jury at Karlovy Vary IFF Bénédicte Prot

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For the 58th edition of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, the legendary American independent producer Christine Vachon – beyond her unwavering collaboration with Todd Haynes since the very beginning for both, she has accompanied, through Killer Films, some of the boldest and most exciting filmmakers of the past three decades including Todd Solondz, Robert Altman, John Waters, Paul Schrader, Brady Corbet, more recently Celine Song – paid her second visit in a row to the Czech A-list film event, this time as a member of the five-headed jury who will decide on the winner of the Crystal Globe.

Vachon gives her impressions on the festival, stressing how warm and lively the public is, and talks a little bit about her jury duties and the good atmosphere within this particular, diverse group – also including Geoffrey Rush, Icelandic author and screenwriter Sjón, Czech actress Eliška Křenková, and Hungarian director Gábor Reisz.
We also talk about Celine Song’s “Past Lives” (presented at the KVIFF last year) and her newest project, about how Vachon boarded Aaron Schimberg’s “A Different Man” (for which the producer attended both public screenings this year at the KVIFF) and about this delightfully disturbing, fun film itself. On Todd Haynes’ next offering, the very little she reveals sounds really promising.
The lovely conversation meanders through various other subjects: first-time directors, cynicism as a creativity killer, embracing change as a producer, amongst other things.

On the Karlovy Vary public screenings

 “One of the pleasures of the public screenings is getting to see the filmmakers present the films, present their entourage, and seeing everybody come up on the stage, from the sound editor to the sales agent, is really special.”
On first-time and emerging directors: “This is a business where it is very, very easy to become cynical, because it’s very hard – there’s a lot of people involved in the film business that maybe aren’t doing it for the right reasons –, and cynicism is such a creativity killer, in my opinion, so working with first-time directors just allows you to really cleanse the cynicism out of the system. And seeing some of the first and second-time films I’ve seen here, again… The energy and the passion!“

On embracing change and the vitality of independent film

“The only reason Killer has stayed in business as long as we have, is we pivot, and we pivot deftly, I think. We don’t hold on to… we don’t get nostalgic for, you know , “what used to be good”, “when the business really was fun”. (…) I read an interview with a colleague (who) has a lot of nostalgia for the old days – “Remember when it was fun?”. And I’m a little like: “Anything’s fun when you’re in your 20s!” I mean, a lot of things get less fun when you hit your fifties and your sixties, but the actual creative impulse, why do we think that we did it better then? We didn’t! We were just doing it our way, so it felt better to us. And now I think it’s hard to come to a festival like this, for example, and see the work of a lot of young filmmakers that feels audacious, and exciting – and it might not always be perfect, nothing is perfect ! –, but I can’t imagine that you can do that and not think to yourself that independent film is alive and well.“

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"American producer and recipient of the Independent Spirit Award and Gotham Award, who co-founded powerhouse Killer Films with partner Pamela Koffler in 1995. Over three decades they have produced more than 100 films, including some of the most celebrated and important American independent features, such as& Kids, I Shot Andy Warhol, Happiness, Boys Don’t Cry, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Far from Heaven, One Hour Photo, Still Alice, Carol, Beatriz at Dinner, and Dark Waters. Vachon has executive produced acclaimed miniseries such as Mildred Pierce and Halston. Notable releases from last year include Todd Haynes’ May December and Celine Song’s Past Lives, the latter marking her first Oscar nomination in the Best Motion Picture category." (KVIFF official website)

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