ERIC LIN, Writer-Director
Eric Lin earned his MFA at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Film Program. His Student Academy Award-nominated short documentary, Music Palace, has screened at film festivals worldwide, including New Directors/New Films, Telluride Film Festival, and Clermont Ferrand Short Film Festival. It is currently airing on the Independent Film Channel. His narrative short film, What Remains, was awarded the Caucus Foundation Student Production Grant as well as the Warner Bros. Pictures Film Production Award. In addition to being honored as a BAFTA Best Short Film Award Runner-Up at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, it has received recognition at festivals across the country. In 2003, he won the Asian American International Screenplay Competition for his script, Kilgore. His work has received support from the C.V. Starr Institute, the Oppenheimer New Filmmakers Grant, and New York State Council for the Arts.
Eric is also an accomplished cinematographer, having shot Bradley Rust Gray's The Exploding Girl (Berlin, Tribeca), and Kit Hui's Cannes short Missing and upcoming feature Fog.
Eric was selected to workshop his feature film project, WHY WE PULL THE TRIGGER, at the 2009 Film Independent Directors Lab, where he was mentored by Kasi Lemmons. In addition, the script was the winner of the 2007 NYU Richard Vague Production Award, a semifinalist for the Nicholl Fellowship administered by the Academy for Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a semifinalist for the Netflix Find Your Voice Competition, and one of ten projects selected for Film Independent's 2009 Fast Track program.
MYNETTE LOUIE, Producer
A New York-based independent film producer, Mynette produced Tze Chun's award-winning Sundance feature, Children of Invention. She also co-produced Andrew Bujalski's critically acclaimed Mutual Appreciation, named one of the top ten films of 2006 by Entertainment Weekly, Film Comment, the Village Voice, Artforum, Greencine, and The Onion's AV Club, among others. Mynette also produced several award-winning narrative short films by minority and women directors that have screened at film festivals worldwide.
Mynette is currently in post-production on P. Benoit's Untitled Haiti Project, a Sundance Lab project starring Edwidge Danticat. Additionally, she is developing several narrative features, including Rory Kelly's the End of Something and Tze Chun's You're a Big Girl Now, with which she was selected for the 2009 Sundance Creative Producing Lab & Fellowship. Mynette was also selected as a fellow of the 2008 Rotterdam Producers Lab and as a participant of the 2010 Berlinale Talent Campus. She is on the Selection Advisory Committee of the Sundance Institute's Feature Film Program, and was named in Ted Hope's list of "21 Brave Thinkers Of Truly Free Film" for the hybrid distribution strategy for Children of Invention.
Mynette previously worked 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 and marketing at SportsIllustrated.com, Jupiter Research, and Time Magazine. A native New Yorker, Mynette graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University with a B.A. in East Asian Studies, focusing on Chinese literature and film.
STEPHANIE HOLBROOK, Casting Director
Stephanie's casting credits include high-profile projects from three major markets. Beginning her career in her hometown of San Francisco, she provided local casting for such films as Jade, Murder in the First, A Walk in the Clouds, and Mrs. Doubtfire for 20th Century Fox. In Los Angeles, Stephanie joined the casting team for ABC's "The Practice" and "Roseanne," and HBO's "Arliss." Early New York credits include Comedy Central's "Chappelle's Show" and Porn ‘N Chicken, and Mike Newell's Mona Lisa Smile.
Stephanie worked with Doug Aibel in casting M. Night Shyamalan's The Village and Lady in the Water, Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic, Bart Freundlich's Trust the Man, Tom Dey's Failure to Launch, and James Gray's We Own the Night. Stephanie also was the Associate Casting Director on Noah Bamubach's Oscar-nominated Margot at the Wedding, having worked with him previously on The Squid and the Whale. In addition, Stephanie worked on the casting of Kenneth Lonergan's upcoming film Margaret.
As an independent Casting Director, Stephanie has cast several projects, including Superheroes for director Alan Brown, Room 314 for Michael Knowles, David Ross' The Babysitters, Jan Schuette's Love Comes Lately, Goodbye Baby for Daniel Schechter and Marc Meyers Harvest for Ibid Films. She cast the first season of MTV's sketch comedy show "Human Giant." Stephanie was also Casting Director on M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening. Most recently, Stephanie cast Dan Schechter's King of Prussia starring Ryan Phillippe and Christina Ricci. Stephanie is casting several films in development: The Shakespear Project and Audrey Hepburn's Neck for Alan Brown, Michael Wechsler's The Red Robin, and will co-cast Boaz Yakin's Life in a Day. Stephanie is just completing casting the indie It's Not You starring Steve Guttenberg.
