Word: businessness
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Independent film producer Mynette A. Louie ’97 recently returned to her old stomping grounds to promote her latest work with director Tze Chun, Sundance selection “Children of Invention.” The film, which tells the story of two Chinese-American children after their...
MAL: I’ve always been split-brained. I’ve liked business and math stuff just as much as I’ve loved creative stuff, so producing is a nice marriage of the business and creative sides.
MAL: I grew up in New York tripping over film sets. I’ve always been interested in film but I never thought of it as something practical to do, and it isn’t really. But I just fell in love with it. I started off in...
MAL: (Laughs) I grew up like the kids in “Children of Invention,” with Chinese immigrant parents. The stereotype is that immigrant parents want their kids to assume traditional doctor, lawyer, business-type positions. My dad was a painter, so he knew firsthand how difficult...
MAL: It’s a fun business. There are parties and festivals and things like that. People dress up, and if people consider that glamorous, then I guess it is. But there is a reason why people call it production—it’s a manufacturing industry...