Mynette Louie

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Mynette Louie
Born New York, NY
Occupation Film producer
Years active 2004—present

Mynette Louie is an American film producer best known for producing Tze Chun's Children of Invention (Sundance 2009) and Cold Comes the Night, Marshall Lewy's California Solo (Sundance 2012), and Martha Stephens & Aaron Katz's Land Ho! (Sundance 2014). She is the winner of the 2013 Independent Spirit Awards Piaget Producers Award.[1] She currently serves as the president of Gamechanger Films, a financing company that invests in women-directed narrative features.[2]

Early life

Louie was born in Manhattan, New York to working-class immigrant parents from Hong Kong and China. She was raised in Brooklyn and Honolulu, and graduated from Hunter College High School and Harvard University.[3]

Career

After working in marketing and business development at Time Magazine, Jupiter Communications, and SportsIllustrated.com, Louie learned producing by producing NYU Tisch graduate thesis films, though she did not attend the school.[4]

Her first feature was Andrew Bujalski's critically acclaimed Mutual Appreciation (SXSW 2005), which she co-produced. Additional feature producing credits include P. Benoit's Stones in the Sun (Tribeca 2012, Special Jury Prize, Best Narrative Director), Doug Karr's Art Machine (Woodstock 2012), Ishai Setton's The Kitchen (Gen Art 2012, Closing Night), Olivia Silver's Arcadia (Berlin 2012, Crystal Bear Winner), and Tze Chun's forthcoming Cold Comes the Night.[5]

Louie also worked in economic development at the Hawaii Film Office, where she authored the state's refundable production tax credit and oversaw the renovation of the state-owned film studio. She was profiled in Indiewire's "Futures" column, which features notable emerging talent in independent film[6] and was listed as one of Ted Hope's "21 Brave Thinkers of Truly Free Film" for the distribution strategy of Children of Invention.[7] She serves on advisory committees for the Sundance Institute, IFP, and A3 Asian American Artists Foundation.

Filmography

References

  1. ↑ "'Piaget Producers Award Winner Mynette Louie". Film Independent. 
  2. ↑ Steven Zeitchik (September 27, 2013). "New movie fund Gamechanger Films is formed to back women directors". Los Angeles Times. 
  3. ↑ Phil Yu (June 4, 2010). "Angry Reader of the Week: Mynette Louie". Angry Asian Man. 
  4. ↑ Araba A. Appiagyei-Dankah (March 2, 2010). "Film Producer Discusses Career Over Dinner". The Harvard Crimson. 
  5. ↑ Justin Kroll (November 20, 2012). "Bryan Cranston, Alice Eve board 'Winter' indie". Variety. 
  6. ↑ Eugene Hernandez (April 23, 2010). "FUTURES | "Children of Invention" Producer Mynette Louie". Indiewire. 
  7. ↑ Ted Hope (December 28, 2009). "21 Great Free Thinkers of Indie Film". The Wrap. 
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