MYNETTE LOUIE | PRODUCER

Mynette is a New York-based independent film producer. She co-produced MUTUAL APPRECIATION, the second feature by Andrew Bujalski, winner of the 2004 Independent Spirit "Someone to Watch" Award. MUTUAL APPRECIATION 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. She also produced several narrative short films by minority women directors that have screened at film festivals worldwide. In 2008, she was selected by IFP as one of two emerging American independent producers to participate in Cinemart's Rotterdam Producers Lab.

Currently, Mynette is in post-production on P. Benoit's UNTITLED HAITI PROJECT, starring Edwidge Danticat. The project was a selection of the Sundance Screenwriters and Directors Lab and winner of the inaugural Time Warner Storyelling Award. Additionally, Mynette is developing several narrative features, including Eric Lin's WHY WE PULL THE TRIGGER and Tze Chun's YOU'RE A BIG GIRL NOW, with which she was selected for the 2009 Sundance Creative Producing Fellowship. She is also on the Selection Advisory Committee of the Sundance Institute's Feature Film Program and was recently selected to participate in the 2010 Berlinale Talent Campus.

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.