Christine Haebler
Producer, Screen Siren Pictures
About Speaker
In the film business since 1983, Christine Haebler started off in production on various big budget US studio films. She then moved into producing in 1995 with her first feature film earning a Best Motion Picture nomination for HARD CORE LOGO. The film was picked up by Quentin Tarantino for his distribution company Rolling Thunder. She then produced a varied group of feature films including, Scott Speedman’s first feature - KITCHEN PARTY directed by Gary Burns, Ashley Judd starrer- HELEN directed by Sandra Nettelbeck, Martin Freeman in - NIGHTWATCHING directed by Peter Greenaway and Cuba Gooding Jr/Val Kilmer’s Sci Fi action thriller HARDWIRED. In 2010 she teamed up with Trish Dolman and Screen Siren Pictures- they have developed and produced many films together starting with Mike Goldbach’s DAYDREAM NATION (2010) starring Kat Dennings, Josh Lucas and Andie MacDowell, followed by Peter Chelsom’s HECTOR AND THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS (2014) with Simon Pegg, Rosamund Pike, Christopher Plummer, Jean Reno and Stellan Skarsgård. She developed and produced the multi-award-winning film INDIAN HORSE (2018) directed by Stephen Campanelli. The film was executive produced by Clint Eastwood and won 22 awards internationally. To date it’s the highest grossing English Canadian feature film for Elevation Pictures. Christine produced the 10-part TV mini-series TERMINAL CITY for UK’s Channel 4 and the 5-part YA miniseries CLUE for Hasbro. She then served as Production Exec on SHUT IN with Naomi Watts and WARRIORS GATE written by Luc Besson both for Europacorp. She also produced FRENCH EXIT (2020), the feature adaptation of author Patrick DeWitt’s acclaimed novel with Sony Classics, directed by Aza Jacobs, starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Lucas Hedges, which earned Michelle Pfeiffer a Golden Globe nomination and a CSA win for Best Actress. She was one of the producers on Dev Patel’s upcoming directorial debut and starring vehicle MONKEY MAN for Universal. Her latest project that she produced and developed entitled BONES OF CROWS, is a dramatic miniseries and feature film from Indigenous filmmaker and playwright Marie Clements, for the CBC and Fifth Season which premiered at TIFF 2022. The film has won 32 awards to date and is nominated for 11 more. The series Premiered on CBC on Sept 20th 2023. She is also currently Exec Producing a feature Doc entitled 500 DAYS IN THE WILD by Dianne Whelen for Paramount + to premier internationally in 2024.