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

by Christine Vachon; Austin Bunn; John Pierson

• ISBN13: 9780743256308
• ISBN10: 0743256301
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-09-19
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Summary

Here is an account of a filmmaker who looks straight into the eye of the Hollywood blockbuster storm and dares not to blink.

In A Killer Life, Christine Vachon follows up her independent producing handbook, Shooting to Kill, with a

Table of Contents

Cost of Characters	xi
Foreword	xv
Introduction "Do You Want to Be in Our Gang?"	1	(16)
TWO DEFINITIONS: PRODUCER, INDEPENDENT FILM
Chapter 1 Getting Used to the Dark	17	(24)
Producer's Diary I
Chapter 2 Target Practice	41	(32)
SPOTLIGHT: TOM KALIN, DIRECTOR, "DEVELOPING SWOON"
Producer's Diary II
Chapter 3 Unreleasable	73	(36)
SPOTLIGHT: BOB BERNEY, PICTUREHOUSE, "DISTRIBUTION AND THE RELEASE OF HAPPINESS"
Chapter 4 Pitching, Buying, Begging, Stalking	109	(28)
SPOTLIGHT: DAVID LINDE, FOCUS FEATURES, "MAKING SENSE OF INTERNATIONAL SALES"
Letter from L.A. I
Chapter 5 Crashes and Burns	137	(14)
SPOTLIGHT: JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL, ACTOR/DIRECTOR, "GETTING HEDWIG TO THE SCREEN"
Chapter 6 All That Heaven Allows	151	(46)
Letter from L.A. II
SPOTLIGHT: TODD HAYNES, WRITER/DIRECTOR, "I'M NOT THERE: DEVELOPING DYLAN"
Chapter 7 Dylan in Turnaround	197	(16)
SPOTLIGHT: ROWENA ARGUELLES, AGENT "CAA AND THE INDIE PRODUCER"
Letter from L.A. III
Chapter 8 Locking Picture	213	(56)
SPOTLIGHT: MARK ROMANEK, WRITER/DIRECTOR, "PHOTO FINISHING: EDITING ONE HOUR PHOTO"
Producer's Diary III
Letter from Sundance, 2005
SPOTLIGHT: JOCELYN HAYES; PRODUCER AND HEAD OF DEVELOPMENT; KILLER FILMS, "TWENTY-FOUR HOURS IN SUNDANCE"
Chapter 9 A Tale of Two Trumann
SPOTLIGHT- PAM KOFFLEE PRODUCER "SCREENINGS FOR SOURCE MATERIAL"
Postscript Left Field	269	(6)
Filmography	275