Mynette Louie
Mynette Louie is an Emmy-nominated, multiple Spirit Award-winning producer.
A few of her movie credits include:
Heidi Ewing’s I Carry You With Me (Sony Pictures Classics, Winner of Sundance 2020 NEXT Innovator & Audience Awards, New York Film Festival selection)
Carlo Mirabella-Davis’ Gotham Award-nominated Swallow - Streaming on Hulu
Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour's Black Box (Amazon Studios/Blumhouse)
Karyn Kusama’s The Invitation (SXSW 2015, Drafthouse/Netflix)
Knowing no one in the film industry, Louie began her film career by producing three NYU Tisch graduate thesis films–all written and directed by women–though she did not attend the school. She also worked at the Hawaii Film Office, where she authored the state’s production tax credit, oversaw the $7.3 million renovation of the state-owned film studio, and developed programs to foster local independent filmmaking.
Prior to producing films, she worked in marketing and business development 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.
Mynette is on the Board of Directors for Film Independent and serves as an advisor to the Sundance Institute, SXSW, Tribeca, and IFP. She was named one of Business Insider’s “12 Movie Producers at the Top of Their Game to Watch in 2020 and Beyond,” Ted Hope’s “21 Brave Thinkers of Truly Free Film,” and Indiewire’s “100 Filmmakers to Follow on Twitter.” Mynette won the 2013 Independent Spirit Piaget Producers Award and is a member of the executive and diversity committees of the Producers branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Show Notes
Tips on starting a producing career later in life
Brief insight into her company’s first look deal with Topic Studios
How partnerships equal longevity
Comparisons between the distribution strategy for SWALLOW vs BLACK BOX vs I CARRY YOU WITH ME