MYNETTE LOUIE | PRODUCER

Mynette is a New York-based independent film producer. She produced Marshall Lewy's CALIFORNIA SOLO starring Robert Carlyle, which will premiere at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, and 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 and on DVD and VOD in 2010. She co-produced Andrew Bujalski's MUTUAL APPRECIATION, which premiered at SXSW and was named one of the top ten films of 2006 by Entertainment Weekly, Film Comment, the Village Voice, and Artforum, among others. Additionally, she is the consulting producer on Olivia Silver's ARCADIA, starring John Hawkes, which will premiere at the 2012 Berlinale Film Festival.

Currently, Mynette is in post-production on Doug Karr's ART MACHINE, starring Joseph Cross, Jessica Szohr, and Joey Lauren Adams; and P. Benoit's STONES IN THE SUN, a Sundance Lab project and Jerome Foundation grantee starring Edwidge Danticat. She is also the consulting producer Ishai Setton's forthcoming film, THE KITCHEN, starring Laura Prepon and Bryan Greenberg.

Mynette is developing several narrative features, including Tze Chun's crime thriller EYE OF WINTER, Eric Lin's death-industry thriller WHY WE PULL THE TRIGGER, Rory Kelly's psychological hiking drama THE END OF SOMETHING, and Tze Chun's historical drama YOU'RE A BIG GIRL NOW, with which she was selected for the 2009 Sundance Creative Producing Lab and Fellowship. Mynette was also a fellow of the 2008 Rotterdam Producers Lab and 2010 Berlinale Talent Campus.

Mynette is on the Program Advisory Board of IFP and the Selection Advisory Committee of the Sundance Labs. 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 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 marketing and business development at SportsIllustrated.com, Jupiter Research, and Time Magazine, and was a book critic for aMagazine: Inside Asian America.

A native New Yorker, Mynette graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University, where she studied Chinese film and literature.


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