‘Past Lives’ Producers Christine Vachon, Pamela Koffler & David Hinojosa On Indie Film Scene’s Rebound From Covid & Perpetuating “A Healthy Ecosystem For Serious Adult Dramas To Exist”
deadline.comAmidst a disrupted industry at the start of the Covid pandemic, the hope amongst producers Christine Vachon, Pamela Koffler and David Hinojosa was simply to stay engaged.
This, they accomplished by reading the best scripts at their disposal — among them Past Lives, which would mark the feature debut of playwright Celine Song.
When the trio were sent the script as a sample, they were told that the project was not available for producing. “And then just a year later, we were offered the opportunity to meet with Celine about producing it,” says Koffler, “and it felt sort of cosmic.” A meditation on roads not taken that generated huge buzz at Sundance before going on to the second-best limited opening of the year earlier this month, Past Lives, Song told us in Park City, is heavily inspired by events in her own life, as “a bilingual and bicultural person.” The A24 film tells the story of Nora (Greta Lee) and Hae Sung (Teo Yoo), two deeply connected childhood friends, who are wrest apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea.
Two decades later, after the playwright has married another writer named Arthur (Magaro), she’s reunited with Hae Sung in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.
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