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Mynette Louie @mynette.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"The Huntress" is screening at SCAD Savannah Film Festival! So I wrote "A Tale of 2 Films About Surviving Sexual Assault" #Cornell7 #metoo mynette.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...

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Mynette Louie @mynette.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So I hate-read this mess, but it wasn't ALL bad. I know times are tough in publishing and editors are a luxury. So I did The Ankler a favor and fixed the headline and kept only the 7 good paragraphs of the article. In fact, there is a GREAT idea in here from Deb at WME. Enjoy!

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Mynette Louie @mynette.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Come work with me! We have a rare job opening for a full-time professor of Creative Producing at Columbia's graduate film program! Check out the details here, and apply by 9/30: apply.interfolio.com/190693

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Mynette Louie @mynette.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

How do you finance your first feature? That's the (sub-) 1 (to 5-ish) million dollar question! I'll be moderating a Zoom panel on it on 7/29, 8p ET/5p PT, and it's totally FREE! It won't be recorded, so register and join us: humanitasprize.org/industry-101-financing-101

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Mynette Louie @mynette.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

After being interviewed by @nytimes.com, I was compelled yet again to write about #indiefilm issues illuminated by #Obsession. In fact, I wrote my very first Substack post abt em! Read it & click on a gift link to the NYT article @ mynette.substack.com: PROFIT SHARING & UNIONS IN INDEPENDENT FILM

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Mynette Louie @mynette.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I cannot take any more of the incorrect info/assumptions about #Obsession math! So here's my public service to ya: a decent approximation of the waterfall based on my 2 decades of indie #producing. (Note: Focus took US rights & only some int'l, so I'm only including USBO to date.) You're welcome!

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Mynette Louie @mynette.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

My directors who've made films w/o me said they missed having me around as partner invested in story w/whom to brainstorm creative solns & dream big. Passion for problem-solving & knowledge of how to make a movie is what separates Career Producers from credit hogs. tribecafilm.com/storytellingsummit

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Mynette Louie @mynette.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Producers: have you submitted your testimony to block the WBD/Paramount merger yet? Do it! To save artistry, originality & diversity in storytelling... blockthemerger.com#share-your-s...

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Mynette Louie @mynette.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Join us 3/5, 6:30p at @columbiasoa.bsky.social's Lenfest (615 W.129th St) for a FREE screening of Rosemead, followed by a conversation w/Eric Lin, Marilyn Fu & me mod. by Qin Gao of @columbiauniversity.bsky.social's Asian American Initiative. Register at www.lenfest.arts.columbia.edu/spring-2026-...

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Mynette Louie @mynette.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Thanks Dear Producer for giving us producers the space to reflect on the #sundancefilmfestival and the state of #indiefilm. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz8D...

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Mynette Louie @mynette.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

If you're in the @aajaofficial.bsky.social or @cuny.edu journalism school communities, come see ROSEMEAD this Wed @5p and chat with me & director Eric Lin after! RSVP at luma.com/jonxpp5d

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Mynette Louie @mynette.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Thoughts on Sharon Waxman's NYT opinion piece? (Headline revision is mine.) What do you think we should do about this? Shrink our budgets (and scopes) even more? Advocate for more soft money? Democratize distribution and marketing (how?)? Stop making movies? www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o...

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Mynette Louie @mynette.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Speaking on Dear Producer's virtual Sundance roundtable this Sat, Jan 31 @ 11am PT / 2pm ET. Register for FREE at www.dearproducer.com/p/producers-...

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Mynette Louie @mynette.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

The wait is almost over! THE HUNTRESS 🏹 premieres in 5 days on opening day at the #SundanceFilmFestival: Thursday, Jan 22, 3p at the Library. 📖 See y'all soon in Park City! ➡️ Sales: United Talent Agency ➡️ Publicity: Cinetic

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Mynette Louie @mynette.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

ROSEMEAD now playing in 40+ theaters in 2 dozen cities. It's Certified Fresh on RT! “Enough can’t be said about Lucy Liu’s astonishing, naturalistic turn...At this moment in time, any truthful, heartfelt story abt America’s immigrant experience deserves our attn”-LAT www.fandango.com/rosemead-202...

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Mynette Louie @mynette.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

RIP James Ransone. He played "Stan" the paparazzo in Aaron Katz's GEMINI. He was wonderful in Sean Baker's TANGERINE too. A great actor gone too soon. 😢 variety.com/2025/tv/obit...

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Mynette Louie @mynette.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

ROSEMEAD opens in Los Angeles today! Come to AMC Century City and chat with us! www.fandango.com/rosemead-202...

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Mynette Louie @mynette.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Excited to premiere THE HUNTRESS at the 2026 #SundanceFilmFestival on Day One, opening the World Cinema Dramatic Competition! A Mexican thriller inspired by true events, the film is Suzanne Andrews Correa's feature directorial debut starring Adriana Paz! festival.sundance.org/program/film...

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Mynette Louie @mynette.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Come hear about the 8-year journey to produce and release ROSEMEAD from me and Andrew Corkin this Thursday at 5p ET, courtesy of The Gotham. Register at link below. #producing rsvp.thegotham.org/1F12AE5E-7CD...

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Mynette Louie @mynette.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Two more awards for Lucy Liu & Rosemead: Critics Choice Trailblazer Award and Miami Film Precious Gem Award!!! Congrats to Lucy and all the other brilliant winners! deadline.com/2025/10/lucy...

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Mynette Louie @mynette.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

If I had $1 for every person who ever said to me “no one wants to see dark films,” I could start a film distribution fund. To those people, I now say to you, “IN YOUR FACE!!!” 😛 ROSEMEAD has won Locarno Film Festival’s Prix du Public UBS audience award!!! www.locarnofestival.ch/news/2025/08...

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Mynette Louie @mynette.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Come to my panel at NYAFF on 7/16, 6pm at @filmlinc.bsky.social's Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center! Co-presented by AIM and NYWIFT. #producing #distribution #asianamerican #aapi www.nyaff.org/nyaff25/even...

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Mynette Louie @mynette.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Come chat with the all-Chinese American lead creative team of ROSEMEAD on 6/8! RSVP asianpacificfilmexperience.org. Besides our film, only 2 others have had an Asian American writer, director, lead producer & lead actor! 🤯 There are only a few tix left for 6/12, so grab them before we sell out!

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Mynette Louie @mynette.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

My 1st feature is turning 20 🤯! Grateful Andrew Bujalski's MUTUAL APPRECIATION launched my #producing career. Made w/a crew of 6, the seminal #indiefilm is a time capsule #Brooklyn in the early aughts. Watch the film (35mm print!) Sat 6/14 @metrograph & stay for Q&A! metrograph.com/film/?vista_...

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Mynette Louie @mynette.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Maybe it's not the best idea to speak on a panel about distribution while I have a film seeking distribution, but here I go. Join us 6/14! I'll try not to depress the heck outta you. And anyway, it's FREE! Get tix at seedandspark.com/events. #Producing #NYC #IndieFilm #SeedAndSpark #FilmCommunity

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Mynette Louie @mynette.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Thrilled to be screening ROSEMEAD in competition at Bentonville & ❤️ seeing #LucyLiu getting the recognition she deserves fr #Bentonville & TAAF. Can't wait for u o see her 😲 performance! #NYC: get your #Tribeca tix! Lucy, Eric Lin + many cast/crew will be at the Q&As! tribecafilm.com/films/roseme...

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Mynette Louie @mynette.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Swap out "female founder" for "female director or producer" and it is the exact same. 😡

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Mynette Louie @mynette.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

'Wang, of “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” said he made $35,000 a year over the seven years that he worked on the film, which made $140 million globally on a $14 million budget.' For the love of #producing & the future of film, a change has got to come. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

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Mynette Louie @mynette.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

The #Oscars 2026 campaign starts now (NOT🥴)! 😂 Appreciate the excitement for Lucy Liu in #Rosemead though! variety.com/lists/2026-o...

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Mynette Louie @mynette.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

#Oscars barely ended & Variety already talking abt what's next. Well, I'll take it since they say Lucy Liu in ROSEMEAD is the #2 most anticipated performance (2nd only to Daniel Day Lewis coming out of retirement to star in his son's film). Cannot wait for you to see it! variety.com/lists/most-a...

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Mynette Louie @mynette.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Hope you're all having fun at the @filmindependent.org #SpiritAwards today. Raise a glass to Josh Welsh! ❤️ And congrats to all! www.youtube.com/live/L8XBHXq...

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Mynette Louie @mynette.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Film Independent's Emergency Filmmaker Relief Fund is back to help the organization's alumni recover from the L.A. wildfires. Apply here: filmindependent1.submittable.com/submit/ed5c8...

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Mynette Louie @mynette.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Actual shirt being sold by the Academy. Just ordered mine. Cheers to the real producers! academymuseumstore.org/products/nom...

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Mynette Louie @mynette.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Imagine being the career producer who actually produced a film nominated for Best Picture & instead of seeing yr name in the #Oscars nom announcement, you see this. Well done everyone, way to devalue #producing! Anyway, CONGRATS to everyone nom'd, including those TBD! www.oscars.org/oscars/cerem...

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Mynette Louie @mynette.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Mon 1/20, 12p PT 🌎🙏🎂🎥❤️ #DavidLynch

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Mynette Louie @mynette.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

SING SING ❤️❤️ reopens this Friday 1/17. Get tix! tickets.singsing.movie After you watch it, read about how it was made, and I guarantee your heart will sing even more. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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Mynette Louie @mynette.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

#LosAngeles #California on my mind. NY ♥️ LA. We are America's twin cities. (Read the rest & scroll for additional #LAfires support here: www.instagram.com/p/DEswAlmJiGg/)

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Mynette Louie @mynette.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I don’t know what the future of #LosAngeles will be, but the only thing that matters right now is getting out alive. Godspeed, everyone. ❤️ #LAFires

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Mynette Louie @mynette.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

"What Do Movie Producers Do, Anyway?" The perennial question. Unbeknownst to me, the NY Times used my Bluesky post as the concluding thought. I know it's fair use, but still disconcerting! Anyway, I said what I said. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/05/m...

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Mynette Louie @mynette.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

This is why I stopped making lists. But by all means, feel free to put my films on your lists! You know, Master's house, tools, rules, etc. #Bestof2024 anothergaze.com/elena-gorfinkel-manifesto-against-lists/

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Mynette Louie @mynette.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Check out this @nplusonemag.com essay by @tavlin.bsky.social about how Netflix upended the film industry. I got to share my anecdote about meeting Reed Hastings while working at Jupiter Communications in the late 1990s. Read the rest here: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...

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Mynette Louie @mynette.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Trading fundraising tips at the Columbia University School of the Arts holiday party with Professors/Filmmakers Tony Bui, James Schamus, Ira Deutchman, and our new dean Sarah Cole. Support the arts!!

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Mynette Louie @mynette.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Now in production! "Emilia Pérez star Adriana Paz, a Cannes 2024 best actress winner alongside the rest of the film’s female key cast, is headlining The Huntress, where she plays a Juárez factory worker turned vigilante who attains the status of a legend." variety.com/2024/film/gl...

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Mynette Louie @mynette.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

And water is wet. variety.com/2024/film/ne...

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Mynette Louie @mynette.bsky.social · 22/12/2023

You can now stream I CARRY YOU WITH ME on Netflix in many countries! New rvw fr India:"[It] isn't just a film; it's an emotional symphony, an intricate melody of love & longing that resonates far beyond the screen." Enjoy our beloved gem,which got lost in pandemic fog www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueld...

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Mynette Louie @mynette.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

This essay, "A24 and the Asian American Prestige Film" by Brian Hu in Film Quarterly is 🔥! I could've written it myself but much less eloquently. It's behind a paywall, unfortunately, but avail if you have a university library acct. Here's an excerpt. online.ucpress.edu/fq/article-a...

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