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Pamela Koffler is an American film and television producer and founding partner of Killer Films, an independent New York-based production company she co-leads with Christine Vachon.
Koffler has produced a large body of critically acclaimed and award-winning films and television series, including Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Mildred Pierce, The Velvet Underground, Past Lives, and May December, which premiered in competition at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival and was acquired by Netflix.
Koffler has been nominated for various entertainment awards, including Primetime Emmy Award and PGA Award nominations for Mrs. Harris in 2006 and Mildred Pierce in 2011, a Film Independent Spirit Award nomination for Hedwig and the Angry Inch in 2002 and win for I'm Losing You in 2000, and an IDA Award win for This American Life in 2008.
Koffler has produced a large body of critically acclaimed and award-winning films and television series, including Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Mildred Pierce, The Velvet Underground, Past Lives, and May December, which premiered in competition at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival and was acquired by Netflix.
Koffler has been nominated for various entertainment awards, including Primetime Emmy Award and PGA Award nominations for Mrs. Harris in 2006 and Mildred Pierce in 2011, a Film Independent Spirit Award nomination for Hedwig and the Angry Inch in 2002 and win for I'm Losing You in 2000, and an IDA Award win for This American Life in 2008.
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Swoon
Act like Phrenology Head
event1992 star_border 5.8
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Teenagers Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb share a dangerous sexual bond and an amoral outlook on life. They spend afternoons breaking into storefronts and engaging in petty crimes, until the calculating Nathan ups the ante by kidnapping, and murdering, a young boy.
Dark Waters: The Cost of Being a Hero
Act like Self
event2019 star_border 7.6
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This piece examines real-life Rob Bilott’s sacrifices to take down a powerful corporation and how a single individual can impact an entire community. Cast and filmmakers discuss the importance of telling this story and empowering whistle-blowers.
Anatomy of a Scene
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event2001 star_border 6
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Anatomy of a Scene is a television series produced by and aired regularly on Sundance Channel since 2001. As a tagline for the series notes, each 30-minute episode "dissects the art of filmmaking" of a scene from a specific film, often a film previously showcased at a Sundance Film Festival.
An episode examines the scene from multiple perspectives, such as production design, costume design, cinematography, storyboards, writing, music, acting, and directing. Interviews with the cast and crew are interspersed with snippets from the film.
Episodes of the show are often included on the DVD release of the films they study.
Boys Don't Cry
Executive Producer (1 ep.)
event1999 star_border 7.4
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A young transgender man explores his gender identity and searches for love in rural Nebraska.
Savage Grace
Producer (1 ep.)
event2007 star_border 5.6
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This examination of a famous scandal from the 1970s explores the relationship between Barbara Baekeland and her only son, Antony. Barbara, a lonely social climber unhappily married to the wealthy but remote plastics heir Brooks Baekeland, dotes on Antony, who is homosexual. As Barbara tries to "cure" Antony of his sexuality -- sometimes by seducing him herself -- the groundwork is laid for a murderous tragedy.
Six by Sondheim
Producer (1 ep.)
event2013 star_border 7.1
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This intimate documentary explores the life and career of the stage legend Stephen Sondheim through six of his best-known songs.
One Hour Photo
Producer (1 ep.)
event2002 star_border 6.6
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Sy "the photo guy" Parrish has lovingly developed photos for the Yorkin family since their son was a baby. But as the Yorkins' lives become fuller, Sy's only seems lonelier, until he eventually believes he's part of their family. When "Uncle" Sy's picture-perfect fantasy collides with an ugly dose of reality, what happens next "has the spine-tingling elements of the best psychological thrillers!"
A Good Person
Producer (1 ep.)
event2023 star_border 7.1
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Allison's life falls apart following her involvement in a fatal accident. The unlikely relationship she forms with her would-be father-in-law helps her live a life worth living.
The Velvet Underground
Executive Producer (1 ep.)
event2021 star_border 6.8
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Experience the iconic rock band's legacy in the first major documentary to tell their story. Directed with the era’s avant-garde spirit by Todd Haynes, this kaleidoscopic oral history combines exclusive interviews with dazzling archival footage.
Deep Powder
Producer (1 ep.)
event2013 star_border 5.3
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When a teen from the wrong side of the tracks falls in love with a wealthy girl at the local boarding school, he agrees to help her smuggle drugs from Ecuador for the benefit of her upper crust friends. But when the plan unravels and he becomes the fall guy for their crimes, he is forced to decide how far he will go for the girl he loves.
Magic Magic
Executive Producer (1 ep.)
event2013 star_border 5.1
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In remote Chile, a vacationing young woman begins to mentally unravel; meanwhile, her friends ignore her claim until it's too late.
Past Lives
Producer (1 ep.)
event2023 star_border 7.7
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Nora and Hae Sung, two childhood friends, are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.
Camp
Producer (1 ep.)
event2003 star_border 5.5
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Misfits in their lives back home, a group of young people live it up at musical-theater camp. While the sports counselor is completely ignored, the kids' spend all their time in rehearsal for a grueling schedule that involves a new show every two weeks. Several personal stories come to the fore.
Postcards from America
Associate Producer (1 ep.)
event1994 star_border 3.8
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Inspired by the autobiographical writings of David Wojnarowicz, "Postcards From America" chronicles the abuse the artist suffered as a child at the hands of his father and his subsequent running away to New York to become a street hustler.
Motherhood
Producer (1 ep.)
event2009 star_border 5
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In Manhattan, a mother of two preparing for her daughter's sixth birthday party has no idea of the challenges she's about to face in order to pull off the event.
She Came to Me
Producer (1 ep.)
event2023 star_border 6.2
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Composer Steven Lauddem is plagued by a creative block which leaves him unable to finish the score for his big comeback opera. When his former therapist-turned-wife Patricia suggests he rekindle his creativity by getting lost in the city, Steven sets out in search of inspiration. His epiphany comes after he meets a spirited woman named Katrina and discovers his life has much more potential than he bargained for, or ever could have imagined.
Still Alice
Producer (1 ep.)
event2014 star_border 7.5
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Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.
Helen & Teacher
Producer (1 ep.)
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Set during the early 1900’s, the movie will follow Keller’s tumultuous time at Radcliffe College of Harvard University when her rapidly expanding worldview and sexual awakening brings her into direct conflict with the more conservative Sullivan.
Innocence
Producer (1 ep.)
event2013 star_border 4
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After losing her mother in a tragic accident, Beckett Warner realizes that her troubles may be far worse—her school is run by a coven of beautiful women who perpetuate their youth by drinking the blood of virgins.
Who Do I Gotta Kill?
Script Supervisor (1 ep.)
event1994 star_border 4.4
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A struggling writer takes a job for his mobster uncle in order to obtain first-hand material for a book on conspiracy plots and the JFK assassination. They often say that a good writer lives what he writes, but what happens when the life that the writer is living could likely get him killed?
The Notorious Bettie Page
Producer (1 ep.)
event2005 star_border 6.3
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Bettie Page grew up in a conservative religious family in Tennessee and became a photo model sensation in 1950s New York. Bettie's legendary pin-up photos made her the target of a Senate investigation into pornography, and transformed her into an erotic icon who continues to enthrall fans to this day.
Then She Found Me
Producer (1 ep.)
event2007 star_border 5.6
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A New York schoolteacher hits a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband leaves, her adoptive mother dies and her biological mother, an eccentric talk show host, materializes and turns her life upside down as she begins a courtship with the father of one of her students.
I'm Losing You
Producer (1 ep.)
event1998 star_border 4.9
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A wealthy businessman Perry Krohn attempts to juggle the needs of his dedicated wife, demanding mistress and grown children while facing his own certain death from lung cancer.
Mala Mala
Executive Producer (1 ep.)
event2015 star_border 6.1
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In a celebration of the trans community in Puerto Rico, the fissure between internal and external is an ever-present battle. A unique exploration of self-discovery and activism, featuring a diverse collection of subjects that include LGBTQ advocates, business owners, sex workers, and a boisterous group of drag performers who call themselves The Doll House, Mala Mala portrays a fight for personal and community acceptance paved with triumphant highs and devastating lows.
The Safety of Objects
Executive Producer (1 ep.)
event2002 star_border 6.6
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In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.
A Home at the End of the World
Producer (1 ep.)
event2004 star_border 6.5
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Three friends form a bond over the year, Johnathan is gay, Clare is straight and Bobby is neither, instead he loves the people he loves. As their lives go on there is tension and tears which culminate in a strong yet fragile friendship between the three.
The Grey Zone
Producer (1 ep.)
event2001 star_border 6.6
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The story of Auschwitz's twelfth Sonderkommando — one of the thirteen consecutive "Special Squads" of Jewish prisoners placed by the Nazis in the excruciating moral dilemma of assisting in the extermination of fellow Jews in exchange for a few more months of life.
The Last of Robin Hood
Producer (1 ep.)
event2013 star_border 5.6
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Errol Flynn, the swashbuckling Hollywood star and notorious ladies man, flouted convention all his life, but never more brazenly than in his last years when, swimming in vodka and unwilling to face his mortality, he undertook a liaison with an aspiring actress, Beverly Aadland. The two had a high-flying affair that spanned the globe and was enabled by the girl's fame-obsessed mother, Florence. It all came crashing to an end in October 1959, when events forced the relationship into the open, sparking an avalanche of publicity castigating Beverly and her mother - which only fed Florence's need to stay in the spotlight.
A Different Man
Co-Producer (1 ep.)
event2024 star_border 7.1
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Aspiring actor Edward undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance. But his new dream face quickly turns into a nightmare, as he loses out on the role he was born to play and becomes obsessed with reclaiming what was lost.
Office Killer
Producer (1 ep.)
event1997 star_border 5.3
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When Dorine Douglas' job as proofreader for Constant Consumer magazine is turned into an at-home position during a downsizing, she doesn't know how to cope. But after accidentally killing one of her co-workers, she discovers that murder can quench the loneliness of her home life, as a macabre office place forms in her basement, populated by dead co-workers.
Omni Loop
Executive Producer (1 ep.)
event2024 star_border 5.6
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Diagnosed with a black hole growing inside her chest and stuck in a loop reliving the last five days of her life, a 55-year-old wife and mother from Miami, Florida decides to solve time travel in order to go back and be the person she always intended to be.
An American Crime
Executive Producer (1 ep.)
event2007 star_border 7.3
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The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s.
Surviving Desire
Second Second Assistant Director (1 ep.)
event1992 star_border 6.9
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Jude, a college professor, is obsessed with Sophie, his student. She, in turn, is intrigued by his scholarly charm. Flirtation turns to lust and the two become lovers.
Beatriz at Dinner
Producer (1 ep.)
event2017 star_border 5.8
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Beatriz, an immigrant from a poor town in Mexico, has drawn on her innate kindness to build a career as a health practitioner. Doug Strutt is a cutthroat, self-satisfied billionaire. When these two opposites meet at a dinner party, their worlds collide, and neither will ever be the same.
Mrs. Harris
Executive Producer (1 ep.)
event2006 star_border 6
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Based on the sensational 1980s media event, famed cardiologist Herman Tarnower meets a particularly brutal end at the hands of his jilted lover, Jean Harris.
On Swift Horses
Executive Producer (1 ep.)
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In the 1950s, a seemingly sensible newlywed and her wayward brother-in-law undertake parallel journeys of risk, romance, and self-discovery.
Wonderstruck
Producer (1 ep.)
event2017 star_border 6
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The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Producer (1 ep.)
event2001 star_border 7.4
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Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig undergoes a personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she reinvents herself as an 'internationally ignored' but divinely talented rock diva, inhabiting a 'beautiful gender of one'.
Late Fame
Producer (1 ep.)
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A long time ago Ed Saxberger wrote a book of poetry that no one ever cared about. When a group of young artists rediscover his work, he must reassess his genius. The wild card in the group is Gloria, a talented and mercurial theatre actress who toys with affections and who is all set to be admired by Saxberger.
May December
Producer (1 ep.)
event2023 star_border 6.6
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Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under the pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about their past.
Colette
Producer (1 ep.)
event2018 star_border 6.9
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After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is transplanted from her childhood home in rural France to the intellectual and artistic splendor of Paris. Soon after, Willy convinces Colette to ghostwrite for him. She pens a semi-autobiographical novel about a witty and brazen country girl named Claudine, sparking a bestseller and a cultural sensation. After its success, Colette and Willy become the talk of Paris and their adventures inspire additional Claudine novels.
Young Bodies Heal Quickly
Executive Producer (1 ep.)
event2014 star_border 5.2
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Two brothers are fleeing arrest for the "accidental" killing of a young girl. Their destination is their estranged father's desolate compound on the sea shore.
Materialists
Producer (1 ep.)
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Set against the vibrant backdrop of New York City, a high-end matchmaker gets involved with a wealthy man but still harbors feelings for the broke actor-waiter she left behind.
Stonewall
Line Producer (1 ep.)
event1995 star_border 6.1
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A group of gay friends try to live with dignity and self-respect while events build to the opening battle in the major gay rights movement.
Dirty Girl
Executive Producer (1 ep.)
event2010 star_border 6.1
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When Danielle is banished to special education because of her misbehavior, she joins Clarke on a road trip to discover themselves.
Kill Your Darlings
Executive Producer (1 ep.)
event2013 star_border 7.1
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A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.
Dark Waters
Producer (1 ep.)
event2019 star_border 7.5
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A tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything — his future, his family, and his own life — to expose the truth.
American Woman
Executive Producer (1 ep.)
event2019 star_border 5
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A political activist helps take care of a group of America’s most wanted fugitives, including a well-known, recently radicalized heiress.
Chelsea Walls
Producer (1 ep.)
event2001 star_border 5
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This movie tells five stories set in a single day at the famed Chelsea Hotel in New York City, involving an ensemble cast of some 30-35 characters.
The World to Come
Producer (1 ep.)
event2021 star_border 7
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In 1856, two women forge a close connection despite their isolation on the American frontier.
The Brutalist
Executive Producer (1 ep.)
event2024 star_border 7
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Escaping post-war Europe, visionary architect László Toth arrives in America to rebuild his life, his work, and his marriage to his wife Erzsébet after being forced apart during wartime by shifting borders and regimes. On his own in a strange new country, László settles in Pennsylvania, where the wealthy and prominent industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren recognizes his talent for building. But power and legacy come at a heavy cost.
The Last Day
Producer (1 ep.)
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Loose adaptation of Virginia Woolf's groundbreaking novel 'Mrs. Dalloway.' 'The Last Day' will likely be set in a modern environment and feature a character-focused drama that explores themes similar to Woolf's work.
Happiness
Line Producer (1 ep.)
event1998 star_border 7.5
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The lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts which society as a whole might find disturbing in a desperate search for human connection.
Mildred Pierce
Executive Producer (5 ep.)
event2011 star_border 7
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Mildred Pierce depicts an overprotective, self-sacrificing mother during the Great Depression who finds herself separated from her husband, opening a restaurant of her own and falling in love with a man, all the while trying to earn her spoiled, narcissistic daughter's love and respect.
Halston
Executive Producer (5 ep.)
event2021 star_border 7.1
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His name built an empire. His style defined an era. American fashion designer Halston skyrockets to fame before his life starts to spin out of control.
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