PROFILE
FROM Todd Haynes
Director Todd Haynes on ‘Wonderstruck’ and telling stories set in the past Todd Haynes’s new film, “Wonderstruck,” moves between the 1920s and the 1970s, telling parallel stories of two deaf kids, Ben and Rose, who run away from home to New York City to try to find an absent parent.
Todd Haynes & Christine Vachon: Carol Director Todd Haynes and producer Christine Vachon are longtime friends and collaborators. They first met as students at Brown University in the 1980's, and together they've made films including Safe and Far from Heaven, as well as the HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce.
Todd Haynes Over the past decade, Todd Haynes has written and directed Poison, Safe, Velvet Goldmine. His latest film, Far From Heaven, which stars Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid and Dennis Haybert, follows the story of a 1950-s suburban family, shattered by repressed emotions and racial taboos.
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