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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 single mother disappears, premiered in Cambridge this past weekend, and screenings are scheduled for next week in New York and Los Angeles. A former East Asian Studies concentrator and Dunster resident, Louie graduated Phi Beta Kappa and went on to work in business and management, first in the media industry...
Mynette A. Louie: Not exactly — I wouldn’t say I’m a big-name producer. I’m more like an emerging producer. My answer to that is always what does a producer not do? The producer does not direct or write, but that’s about it. They do everything from raising finances to overseeing the physical production of the film, to distribution, to marketing, to hiring cast and crew...
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...
Because of the intense personal investment involved in producing, Louie picks and chooses the films that she works on carefully. “It’s so hard—if you’re not proud of the end result, you feel like it’s not worth...
...love with the story and the director has to be sane.” This is why the success of “Children of Invention” has meant so much to her; she truly loves the movie. The film’s success, however, may have pigeonholed Louie, given that it focuses on an Asian-American family...