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Update #2: You can still donate to us!
Hi all,
We didn't reach our goal for DIY distribution costs for CHILDREN OF INVENTION, but that's OK. Our theatrical run has already actually generated a profit since we kept P&A costs so low! We're continuing to release in U.S. cities through Summer 2010, and of course, we're still selling DVDs from our site, so please support the film by buying tickets & DVDs, and continuing to spread the word. More info here: http://childrenofinvention.com/
If you would still like to donate to help us out, we no longer need help on COI, but we do need help on our new project! (For those of you who aren't familiar with film financing, we cannot apply our revenues from COI to new projects.)
We are taking tax-deductible donations for research and development on our new film, YOU'RE A BIG GIRL NOW, in which a Singaporean orphan is bought by a brothel, escapes to Hong Kong with an older prostitute, then returns to Singapore to uncover the mysteries of her childhood. This narrative feature is based on the true life story of Tze's mother.
The project has received the following honors:
* IFP No Borders Co-Production Market, 2007 & 2009
* Sundance Creative Producing Lab & Fellowship, 2009
* Tribeca All-Access Key Ingredients, 2010
* Shanghai Int'l Film Festival Co-Production Market 2010
(and another one not yet publicized)
Tze and I are attending the Shanghai Co-Production Market in mid-June to seek financing partners and other resources for the project. The market pays for hotel, but not flights. Each roundtrip ticket to Shanghai costs $1700, and a Chinese visa costs $130 each, so we will be spending a total of $3660 for this trip alone. We are also seeking additional funds for travel to another market this summer, as well as location scouting and research trips to Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong, where we hope to shoot the film.
If you would like to make a tax-deductible donation to help us, please visit:
http://syncopatedfilms.com/biggirl.htm
Thanks for your support!
Mynette
Update #1: Oh well...
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Posted on February 26, 2010
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This project reached the deadline without achieving its funding goal on February 26, 2010.
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Mynette is a New York-based independent film producer. She produced Tze Chun's CHILDREN OF INVENTION (Sundance '09, winner of 17 festival prizes) and co-produced Andrew Bujalski's MUTUAL APPRECIATION ("Top ten films of 2006"--Entertainment Weekly, Film Comment, the Village Voice, Artforum, Greencine, The Onion's AV Club, etc.).
Currently, Mynette is in post-production on Marshall Lewy's CALIFORNIA SOLO starring Robert Carlyle; Doug Karr's ART MACHINE starring Joseph Cross, Jessica Szohr, and Joey Lauren Adams; and P. Benoit's STONES IN THE SUN starring Edwidge Danticat. Additionally, Mynette is developing several narrative features, including Eric Lin's WHY WE PULL THE TRIGGER and Tze Chun's EYE OF WINTER and YOU'RE A BIG GIRL NOW, with which she was selected for the 2009 Sundance Creative Producing Fellowship. Mynette was also selected as a fellow of the 2008 Rotterdam Producers Lab and 2010 Berlinale Talent Campus.
Mynette is on the Program Advisory Board of the IFP and the Selection Advisory Committee of the Sundance Labs. Along with Tze Chun, she was named in Ted Hope's list of "21 Brave Thinkers Of Truly Free Film" for their hybrid distribution strategy for CHILDREN OF INVENTION, and she was profiled in indieWIRE’s “Futures” column, which features notable emerging talent in independent film.
Previously, Mynette served as Economic Development Specialist at the Hawaii Film Office, where she authored the state's 15-20% refundable production tax credit, oversaw the $7.3 million renovation of the state-owned film studio, and developed programs to foster local independent filmmaking. She also worked in business development at SportsIllustrated.com, market research at Internet consulting firm Jupiter Research, consumer marketing at Time Magazine, and was a book critic for aMagazine: Inside Asian America.
A native New Yorker, Mynette graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University with a B.A. in East Asian Studies, focusing on Chinese film and literature.
