Mynette Louie

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Mynette Louie
Born
New York City, New York
, U.S.
OccupationFilm producer
Years active2004—present

Mynette Louie is an American film producer of Chinese descent. She was nominated for a Primetime Emmy and Critics Choice Award in 2018 for HBO's

I Carry You With Me and The Tale. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.[2]

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

NYU Tisch graduate thesis films, though she did not attend the school.[4]

Louie has premiered eight feature films at the

I Carry You With Me, Jennifer Fox's The Tale starring Laura Dern, Isabelle Nélisse, Ellen Burstyn, Jason Ritter, Elizabeth Debicki, and Common; Christina Choe's Nancy starring Andrea Riseborough, J Smith Cameron, Steve Buscemi, Ann Dowd, and John Leguizamo, Hannah Fidell's "The Long Dumb Road" starring Tony Revolori and Jason Mantzoukas; So Yong Kim's Lovesong starring Riley Keough and Jenna Malone; 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 the New York Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Venice Critics Week,

Locarno Film Festival, London Film Festival, and Berlin Film Festival
.

Her first feature was

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 previously served as the president of Gamechanger Films, a financing company that invested in women-directed narrative features.[6]

Louie also worked in economic development at the

IFP, and A3 Asian American Artists Foundation. Her production company The Population signed a deal with Topic Studios more recently.[12]

Louie was invited to become a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2016. She is also an Assistant Professor of Professional Practice in the graduate film producing program at Columbia University School of the Arts.[13]

Producing filmography

References

  1. Film Independent
    .
  2. ^ "The film academy's 2016 class: An exclusive club gets much bigger after #OscarsSoWhite". Los Angeles Times. July 4, 2016. Retrieved January 14, 2021.
  3. ^ Phil Yu (June 4, 2010). "Angry Reader of the Week: Mynette Louie". Angry Asian Man.
  4. ^ Araba A. Appiagyei-Dankah (March 2, 2010). "Film Producer Discusses Career Over Dinner". The Harvard Crimson.
  5. ^ Justin Kroll (November 20, 2012). "Bryan Cranston, Alice Eve board 'Winter' indie". Variety.
  6. ^ Steven Zeitchik (September 27, 2013). "New movie fund Gamechanger Films is formed to back women directors". Los Angeles Times.
  7. ^ Jason Guerrasio (February 12, 2020). "12 movie producers at the top of their game to watch in 2020 and beyond". Business Insider.
  8. The Wrap
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  9. Indiewire
    .
  10. ^ Theresa Agovino (January 19, 2014). "A Gamechanger for film biz". Crain's New York.
  11. Indiewire
    . October 30, 2012.
  12. ^ Ramos, Dino-Ray (December 17, 2020). "Topic Studios Signs First-Look Deal With The Population". Deadline. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  13. ^ "Welcome New Faculty Members to the 2021/22 Academic Year". Columbia University School of the Arts. October 25, 2021. Retrieved December 26, 2021.

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