MYNETTE LOUIE | PRODUCER

Mynette is a New York-based independent film producer. She produced Tze Chun's award-winning CHILDREN OF INVENTION, which premiered at Sundance 2009, played over 50 film festivals, won 17 festival awards, and was released theatrically in 8 cities in 2010. She co-produced Andrew Bujalski's MUTUAL APPRECIATION, which was named one of the top ten films of 2006 by Entertainment Weekly, Film Comment, the Village Voice, Artforum, Greencine, and The Onion's AV Club, among others. Mynette also produced several award-winning narrative short films by minority and women directors that have screened at film festivals worldwide.

Currently, Mynette is in post-production on P. Benoit's UNTITLED HAITI PROJECT, a Sundance Lab project starring Edwidge Danticat. Additionally, she is developing several narrative features, including Eric Lin's WHY WE PULL THE TRIGGER, Rory Kelly's THE END OF SOMETHING, and Tze Chun's YOU'RE A BIG GIRL NOW, with which she was selected for the 2009 Sundance Creative Producing Lab and Fellowship. Mynette was also selected as a fellow of the 2008 Rotterdam Producers Lab and 2010 Berlinale Talent Campus.

Mynette is on the Selection Advisory Committee of the Sundance Institute's Feature Film Program. Along with Tze Chun, she was named in Ted Hope's list of "21 Brave Thinkers Of Truly Free Film" for their hybrid distribution strategy for CHILDREN OF INVENTION, and she was recently profiled in indieWIRE’s “Futures” column, which features notable emerging talent in independent film.

Previously, Mynette served as Economic Development Specialist at the Hawaii Film Office, where she authored the state's 15-20% refundable production tax credit, oversaw the $7.3 million renovation of the state-owned film studio, and developed programs to foster local independent filmmaking. She also worked in business development at SportsIllustrated.com, market research at Internet consulting firm Jupiter Research, consumer marketing at Time Magazine, and was a book critic for aMagazine: Inside Asian America.

A native New Yorker, Mynette graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University with a B.A. in East Asian Studies, focusing on Chinese film and literature.


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