A Killer Life: How an Independent Film Producer Survives Deals and Disasters in Hollywood and Beyond - Hardcover

Christine Vachon; Austin Bunn; John Pierson

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9780743256308: A Killer Life: How an Independent Film Producer Survives Deals and Disasters in Hollywood and Beyond

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0743256301 ISBN 13: 9780743256308

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2006

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A behind-the-scenes memoir about taking risks and maintaining credibility in today's independent film arena, written by the woman producer of Boys Don't Cry and Far from Heaven, describes her first two decades in the industry, her controversial decisions, and her observations about the clash between the film worlds of New York and Hollywood.

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Review:

"The parents of every film student should save the money they're spending sending their kids to school and just buy them a copy of this book."

-- Scott Rudin, producer

"It's all here -- the agony and the ecstasy, the bad and the beautiful -- depicted with honesty, wit, and hard-won knowledge."

-- Jack Lechner, author of "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You"

"Glamorously adventurous but sometimes scarily truthful, Christine Vachon's funny, insightful new book about producing independent movies reads like a thriller. Boy, can she kick ass to get a movie made."

-- John Waters

"Christine Vachon doesn't pull any punches, and her candor about filmmaking is truly refreshing. "A Killer Life" is a must-read for aspiring filmmakers and seasoned veterans alike."

-- Gale Anne Hurd, producer of the "Terminator" series

Synopsis:

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.

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