Trailblazing film producers Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler make Governors Awards history

Killer Films co-founders Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler are making history Sunday at the Governors Awards. The two women, who have spent their careers bringing bold, independent cinema into the world — from “Boys Don’t Cry” to “Safe” — are being honored with the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.That honorary Oscar has been given to some of the biggest names in Hollywood, from Walt Disney to Steven Spielberg.

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But Vachon and Koffler are the first female producing team and the first independent producers to receive it.“It really feels so bound up in our longevity in New York City and in the independent film community in New York,” Koffler said in an interview with The Associated Press. “We do all know each other and, over the years, those of us who are still doing it really feel like an extended community that has supported each other, because opportunities are a little bit fewer, the movies are a little bit tougher, and it really feels like an acknowledgment of this space that we’r