Mynette Louie - Producer of I CARRY YOU WITH ME and SWALLOW

Published: Feb. 1, 2021, 5 p.m.

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Mynette Louie is an Emmy-nominated, multiple Spirit Award-winning producer. A few of her movie credits include:

Heidi Ewing\\u2019s I Carry You With Me (Sony Pictures Classics, Winner of Sundance 2020 NEXT Innovator & Audience Awards, New York Film Festival selection)

Carlo Mirabella-Davis\\u2019 Gotham Award-nominated Swallow\\xa0

Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour\'s Black Box (Amazon Studios/Blumhouse)

Karyn Kusama\\u2019s 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\\u2013all written and directed by women\\u2013though she did not attend the school. She also worked at the Hawaii Film Office, where she authored the state\\u2019s production tax credit, oversaw the $7.3 million renovation of the state-owned film studio, and developed programs to foster local independent filmmaking.

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\\u2019s \\u201c12 Movie Producers at the Top of Their Game to Watch in 2020 and Beyond,\\u201d Ted Hope\\u2019s \\u201c21 Brave Thinkers of Truly Free Film,\\u201d and Indiewire\\u2019s \\u201c100 Filmmakers to Follow on Twitter.\\u201d 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.

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

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