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...between courses, Louie spoke to the audience members about being a producer and her experiences in film. “Film is so complicated… it’s hard to know what to do,” said Louie about getting into film. She had an interest in film and the arts from childhood and even directed a play involving Georgia S. Lee ’98 (later director of the film “Red Doors”) during her time at Harvard, but took no courses focusing specifically on film. While in New York City...
According to Louie, the most important part of her job as producer is finding funding for the numerous independent films that she works on. It takes a great deal of work, she says, as she described the role of social networking in her life as a producer. “I’ve negotiated deals half-drunk at parties,” she told students. Despite the seeming glamour of her job, however, it is a difficult and exhausting one. “I send over 300 emails a day, at least,” she said. It also...
...People tend to approach me with Asian-America scripts now,” she said, but she refuses to be boxed into producing a specific kind of film. Currently, she is working in the post-production stage on an untitled film focusing on the earthquake in Haiti and is also starting to work on a film that may serve as a prequel to “Children of Invention...
John Henry F. Hinkel ’12 recently co-directed his first feature film, “The Death of Richard Young,” with scriptwriter Kieran Scarlett. Hinkel and Scarlett, who have known each other for five years, began the project together in December 2007. The production attempts to provide an honest depiction of a family coping with a traumatic experience. After being diagnosed with testicular cancer, the father—Richard Young—begins to question his past and present interactions with his family. Both comedy and serious revelation ensue. “Death?...
John Henry F. Hinkel: The story is about a father of three, Richard Young, who gets diagnosed with testicular cancer. The film takes place in the week leading up to his surgery. It follows his attempts—and failures—to repair the relationships with his kids and wife, who basically think he’s a dick. The film is a comedy though, and there aren’t necessarily a lot of films that take cancer and comedy and put them together...