Iconic indie producer Christine Vachon gets her because of 2025 Austin Film Festival. Indiewire may exclusively announce that Vachon will be attached with the acclaimed Polly Platt award for producing at this year’s AF AF AF Pocal Conference, which will take place from 23 to 26 October. “Dear White People” Showrunner Yvette Lee Bowser Will also be honored with the outstanding TV writer award during the annual conference.
Vachon is an independent Spirit Award and the Gotham Award winners who founded power plant films with partner Pamela Koffler in 1995. Over 30 years have the duo’s banner produced more than 100 acclaimed filmsIncluding “Boys Don’t Cry”, “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”, “Far from Heaven”, “Still Alice”, “Past Lives” (which landed Vachon her first Oscar nomination in the best image category) and “Carol. ”
Vachon launched their career at Sundance 1991 with its first function filmwhich was “Carol” Authur Todd Haynes’ Grand Jury Prize-winning “Poison.” Vachon has particularly collaborated with Haynes on several films, including “May December”, plus his TV series “Mildred Pierce. “Killer Films was also set to produce Haynes’ now-protected queer romance that would start Joaquin Phoenix before the actor Different paths with the project.
In addition to the Emmy and Golden Globe-awarded miniseries “Mildred Pierce”, Vachon has also produced the Emmy-award-winning limited series “Halston” for Netflix. Read Indieview’s interview With Vachon here.
Austin Film Festival’s Polly Platt Award for Proding was founded in 2019 and is given annually to a producer with an “anxious sense of story and a history of promoting new talent”, according to its official description. Maybe soon comes earlier Lucasfilm Executive Kathleen Kennedy, Plan B’s Dede Gardner, Lauren Shuler Donner, Stephanie Aliin and Sarah Green are all producers who have been honored with the award since its inception.
The outstanding TV author, with whom Bowser will be honored this year, was introduced in 2000. The award highlights the “artistic achievements and contributions from television creators and their importance to form the landscape in serialized story”, as the description says. Former dividends include Damon Lindelof, Vince Gilligan, Ronald D. Moore, Larry Wilmore and Marta Kauffman.
Author/producer Bowser is the first and youngest black woman to create and run her own TV series. Bowser began his career in television as an apprenticeship writer at “A Different World”, where she imprisoned 25 episodes and became a producer during her five -year period. Bowser then continued to produce “Hangin ‘with Mr. Cooper” before creating “Living Single” for Fox when she was 27 years old. Bowser also helped launch “Black-ish” at ABC and Executive produced the Netflix series “Dear White People”, for which she was also showrunner.
Bowser last was showrunner and executive producer of “Avonsoned.” She has an overall deal with the 1900s studios and was the recipient of the Writers Guild of America’s 2023 Paddy Chayfsky Laurel Award. Bowser previously helped to start WGA Showrunner Training Program.
“I am humble and honored to receive this excellent award from the Austin Film Festival,” Bowser said in an official statement. “Throughout my career, I have been blessed to show humanity through stories. I am grateful for this recognition of my very intentional work. “
Both Vachon and Bowser will speak at AFF’s 2025 Writers Conference and are later recognized at the prices of prices on October 25. The lunch will honor the winner of the award, script and film competition and the recipients of industry-sponsored scholarships such as AMC an hour Pilot Award, Big Indie Pictures script Fellowship, Big Indie Pictures Film Fellowship, Nickeloweon Writing Program Comedy Teleplay FellowShip Endderby Entertainment Filmmaking Fellowship and Endderby Entertainment Screenwriting Award.
Austin Film Festival’s Writers Conference will present a total of more than 150 panels on art, crafts and business with stories, with a slate of prominent industry staff working in film, television and new media.
