Mynette Louie
| Mynette Louie | |
|---|---|
| Born | New York City, New York, United States |
| Occupation | Film producer |
| Years active | 2004—present |
Mynette Louie is an American film producer of Chinese descent and winner of the 2013 Independent Spirit Awards Piaget Producers Award.[1] She serves as the president of Gamechanger Films, a financing company that invests in women-directed narrative features.[2]
She has premiered three feature films at the Sundance Film Festival: Martha Stephens & Aaron Katz's Land Ho! starring Paul Eenhoorn (Sundance 2014, Sony Pictures Classics, Spirit Award nominee), Marshall Lewy's California Solo starring Robert Carlyle (Sundance 2012, Strand Releasing), and Tze Chun's Children of Invention starring Cindy Cheung (Sundance 2009). Her films have also premiered or screened at SXSW, Tribeca Film Festival, Los Angeles Film Festival, Locarno Film Festival, London Film Festival, and Berlin Film Festival.
Background
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. In addition to Land Ho!, California Solo, and Children of Invention, Louie also produced or executive produced Patricia Benoit's Stones in the Sun starring Edwidge Danticat (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 starring John Hawkes (Berlin 2012, Crystal Bear Winner), and Tze Chun's Cold Comes the Night starring Alice Eve, Logan Marshall-Green, and Bryan Cranston (Sony/Goldwyn 2014).[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 listed as one of Ted Hope's "21 Brave Thinkers of Truly Free Film" for the distribution strategy of Children of Invention,[6] profiled in Indiewire's "Futures" column[7] and in Crain's New York Business,[8] and named one of Indiewire's "100 Filmmakers to Follow on Twitter."[9] She serves as an advisor to the Sundance Institute, SXSW, IFP, and A3 Asian American Artists Foundation.
Producing Filmography
- Mutual Appreciation (2006) – Co-Producer
- Children of Invention (2009) – Producer
- California Solo (2012) – Producer
- Arcadia (2012) – Consulting Producer
- Stones in the Sun (2012) – Producer
- The Kitchen (2012) – Executive Producer
- Art Machine (2012) – Producer
- Cold Comes the Night (2014) – Producer, Second Unit Director
- Land Ho! (2014) – Producer
- Addicted to Fresno (2015) - Executive Producer
- The Invitation (2015) – Executive Producer
- Lovesong (2016) - Executive Producer
- Buster's Mal Heart (2016) - Executive Producer
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