Mynette Louie - Film Independent

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Mynette Louie

  • Discipline:Producer
  • Program Year:Fast Track 2009, Fast Track 2010, Grants and Awards 2013

Bio

Mynette Louie is a New York-based producer. She is the winner of the 2013 Film Independent Spirit Award Piaget Producers Award. She produced Marshall Lewy’s California Solo starring Robert Carlyle (Sundance 2012); Patricia Benoit’s Stones in the Sun starring Edwidge Danticat (Tribeca 2012); Doug Karr’s Art Machine starring Joseph Cross, Jessica Szohr and Joey Lauren Adams (Woodstock 2012); and Tze Chun’s critically acclaimed Children of Invention (Sundance 2009). She was the consulting producer on Olivia Silver’s Arcadia starring John Hawkes (Crystal Bear Award, Berlinale 2012), executive produced The Kitchen starring Laura Prepon, Bryan Greenberg and Dreama Walker (Gen Art 2012, Closing Night) and co-produced Andrew Bujalski’s Mutual Appreciation (SXSW). Louie is in post-production on Tze Chun’s Cold Comes the Night starring Alice Eve, Logan Marshall-Green and Bryan Cranston. She serves on advisory boards for IFP and A3 Asian American Artists Foundation, has been an advisor to the Sundance Institute and consultant for international sales agent Visit Films, and was named as one of Ted Hope’s “21 Brave Thinkers Of Truly Free Film.” Louie previously worked at the Hawaii Film Office, where she authored the state’s production tax credit, and in business development and marketing at SportsIllustrated.com, Jupiter Research and Time Magazine. A native New Yorker, Louie graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University, where she studied Chinese literature and film.

Current Project

Cold Comes the Night

Logline

A struggling motel owner and her daughter are taken hostage by a nearly blind career criminal to be his eyes as he attempts to retrieve his cash package from a crooked cop.