Mynette Louie @mynette

Spirit Awards-winning, Emmy & Critics Choice-nominated producer + Columbia film professor instagram.com/mynettelouie/ Joined March 2009

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Mynette Louie @mynette

24 hours ago

@LukeBarnett @mikeastahl @mikestahl it's just an estimate. May've been 35%, 40%, whatev. There was a bidding war at TIFF, so producers had leverage. In 1 of my bidding wars, distrib fee = 35% & licensor's share of net = 100%. My main purpose was to show everyone how many layers there are in a waterfall.

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Mynette Louie @mynette

a day ago

@YesThatTeach @UploadTodd And FWIW, for a $750K indie w/no stars, I'm 99% sure it was all equity-financed. There's no collateral to loan against--can't presell those actors or 1st time director, and they did not get a CA tax credit as far as I'm aware.

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Mynette Louie @mynette

a day ago

@YesThatTeach @UploadTodd Esp since most ppl don't read carefully & many don't understand math. Did not share one of my many real waterfalls bc of confidentiality clauses. And it's Obession's waterfall that everyone's talking abt. Thx for coming to my TED talk.

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Mynette Louie @mynette

a day ago

@Hwdgfly @sujewafantastic The other place where accounting gets creative is when studios make deals with themselves (e.g. between 2 divisions), and don't properly assign fair-market 3rd party value to, say, a streaming license. This is why vertically integrated monopolies suck for producers!

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Mynette Louie @mynette

a day ago

@Hwdgfly @sujewafantastic Just seeing this. Distributor's waterfall is precisely negotiated and contractual w/the licensor (producer) of the film. Where the "creative accounting" happens is in P&A (distrib/mktg) line. I have $8M in my example, but distribs could inflate that w/bogus charges...

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Mynette Louie @mynette

2 days ago

The spreadsheets that prompted this:

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Mynette Louie @mynette

2 days ago

I spoke on The Town with Matt Belloni today about the obsession with #Obsession numbers, #indiefilm waterfalls, sharing profits with crew, and distribution woes. Take a look or listen! youtu.be/BUSzOxhGZ68?is…

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Matthew Belloni @MattBelloni

2 days ago

New pod: Cut the BS, let’s discuss who gets paid what on a massive indie hit like Obsession. With producer/professor @mynette Louie. Listen! Watch! open.spotify.com/episode/0Zhahn…

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Mynette Louie @mynette

2 weeks ago

Gr8 piece on James Harris & Mark Lane,producers 1st to believe in Curry Barker. Barker has been whisked away by Hollywood & already shot his next film wo them. Indie producers are 1st to invest resources in new talent. Hwood shld start rewarding us for it! hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-f…

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Mynette Louie @mynette

2 weeks ago

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. @Tribeca

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Mynette Louie @mynette

4 weeks ago

If everyone who worked in film would just let the filmmakers make the films, the world would have better films and life would just be grand.

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Mynette Louie @mynette

2 months ago

Congrats to Juan Devis on his new post as President of @filmindependent! I had the chance to meet him last week, and while I was a mess of emotions thinking of Josh Welsh, I was (and am) excited about Juan's vision for our beloved organization. ¡Vámonos! deadline.com/2026/04/film-i…

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Mynette Louie @mynette

4 months ago

Join us 3/5, 6:30pm at @ColumbiaSOA's Lenfest (615 W.129th St) for a FREE special screening of Rosemead, followed by a conversation with Eric Lin, Marilyn Fu & me mod. by Qin Gao, of @Columbia's Asian American Initiative. Register here: lenfest.arts.columbia.edu/spring-2026-ev…

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Mynette Louie @mynette

4 months ago

Gr8 piece. DIY distribution is brutally hard & expensive. But so is filmmaking. "This might sound cynical, but the cottage industry that has grown around filmmaker-led, community-focused distribution may be offering false promises to a lot of filmmakers." anthonykaufman.substack.com/p/the-double-e…

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Mynette Louie @mynette

4 months ago

❤️ her! “I’m a producer on it, but I didn’t know until 3 weeks in... It was one of those vanity credits, ’cause I didn’t do sh*t to make that movie." deadline.com/2026/02/amanda…

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Mynette Louie @mynette

4 months ago

If you're in the @aaja or @CUNY 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

4 months ago

Sharing the L.A. Times panel I spoke on at Sundance. I didn't get to complete any of my sentences, but at least they put photos of The Huntress and Rosemead crews in here! youtube.com/watch?v=-NPmUw…

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Mynette Louie @mynette

4 months ago

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

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The Film Stage 📽 @TheFilmStage

5 months ago

See an exclusive clip from Suzanne Andrews Correa’s tense thriller The Huntress (La Cazadora), starring Adriana Paz and premiering at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival.