I Will Make You Mine

Cinephile deep dive

The take

Lynn Chen directs. Bill Otto behind the camera. Goh Nakamura scores. Abe Forman-Greenwald cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English, Japanese.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

• 180 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
• 2Released 6 years ago.
• 3Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, Japanese.
• 4Part of the "Surrogate Valentine Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
• 5Directed by Lynn Chen, shot by Bill Otto. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
• 6Original score by Goh Nakamura. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
• 7Editor Abe Forman-Greenwald shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
• 8Lynn Chen and Yea-Ming Chen and Ayako Fujitani carry the top of the cast.
• 9IMDB entry: tt8820348 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
• 10Only 7 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
• 11Classified under 10 themes, including "funeral", "musician", "death of father", "female protagonist".

The technical file

Cinematography

Bill Otto

Original score

Goh Nakamura

Editing

Abe Forman-Greenwald

Production design

Ashley Bussell

Makeup / hair

Skyla Swafford

Sound

Carlos Sanches

Runtime

80 min · 1h 20m

Aspect ratio (typical)

1.37:1 (Academy)

Status

Released

Original language

EN

IMDB

I Will Make You Mine (2020) ↗

Part of

Surrogate Valentine Collection

The Surrogate Valentine Collection

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  Surrogate Valentine

  2011
• 
  Daylight Savings

  2012
• 
  I Will Make You Mine

  2020 · this one

Also by

Lynn Chen

• 
  Stage Kids

  2023

Stills · wallpapers

Selected frames

Full-resolution frames — open one to save it as a wallpaper.

Wallpaper

Trailers & featurettes

Watch the pieces

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  A Director Should Look Cute! (IWMYM BTS)

  Behind the Scenes
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  FOR DADDY (I Will Make You Mine: BTS)

  Behind the Scenes
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  I Will Make You Mine (OFFICIAL TRAILER)

  Trailer
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  I Will Make You Mine Trailer

  Trailer · Official
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  I'm making a movie: "I WILL MAKE YOU MINE!"

  Featurette

Production companies

Who made it

• GR

  Gray Hat

  US

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  Unbound Feet Productions

  US

• TI

  Tiger Industry Films

  US

Key crew

• SongsGoh Nakamura
• SongsYea-Ming Chen
• Associate ProducerNathan Sutton
• Co-Executive ProducerBrian Kobashikawa
• Co-Executive ProducerDuane Andersen
• Co-Executive ProducerMichael Lerman
• Co-Executive ProducerJoel Clark
• Co-Executive ProducerGoh Nakamura
• Unit Production ManagerNathan Sutton
• First Assistant DirectorNathan Sutton
• Second Assistant DirectorChristian Williams
• Production CoordinatorGregory Barnes
• Supervising EditorCarlos Sanches
• Sound Re-Recording MixerCarlos Sanches
• Production Sound MixerJacob Nerstheimer
• Foley SupervisorYuri Pridachin
• Foley ArtistDennis Skorina
• Foley MixerNatalia Morozova
• Foley EditorBoris Tsarev
• Foley EditorSergey Klimentovskiy
• Dialogue EditorLuke Wilder
• First Assistant CameraAdonay Gallardo
• Additional First Assistant CameraRyan Sax
• Second Assistant CameraNoah Maxey

Themes & keywords

What it's about, really

• funeral
• musician
• death of father
• female protagonist
• los angeles, california
• black and white
• childhood friends
• estranged couple
• singer-songwriter
• woman director

Release history · US

When it landed

• Premiere2020-03-28· Cleveland Film Festival
• Digital2020-05-26
• Physical2020-05-26· DVD / Blu-ray

Also known as

International titles

• Surrogate Valentine 3US