LETTERBOXED
https://letterboxd.com/director/stephanie-beth/
Stephanie Beth is an independent producer.
film in shooting order
I Want to be Joan 1977
IN JOY 19980
US AND THE GAME INDUSTRY 2013
US AND THE GAME INDUSTRY (2013)
Photo grid of independent developers, and also the musical composer and Producers of JOURNEY, a play station videogame from SONY Entertainments. During that game build process, over three years, Stephanie Beth made the documentary US AND THE GAME INDUSTRY(2013), a curious world view.
Photo assembly by Stephanie.
For the the first film camera roll. shoot in America for US AND THE GAME INDUSTRY, I rented an apartment as a set for a key group conversation from which I would take direction. I selected for this first talk, Developers: Edmund McMillen, Jason Rohrer, Jenova Chen and Petri Purho. San Francisco. 2009, during the time of GDC 2009. I made all of those bookings in New Zealand before I departed to California.
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Interview STUFF 2013. https://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/games/9031550/Breaking-through-the-gaming-industry
NATIONAL RADIO https://podcast.radionz.co.nz/art/art-20130818-1445-us_and_the_game_industry-048.mp3
Premiere night. 2013. Los Angeles. Arena Cinema. Right. Jenova Chen, Creative Director of JOURNEY, a Play Station 3 game built between 2009 and 2012 for SONY ENTERTAINMENT AMERICA.
US AND THE GAME INDUSTRY screened at the Festival. Dances with films. 2013. Left. Game Developoer. Jenova Chen. Developer. Jason Rohrer. Rohrer. Jnr, co-producer Clay Westervelt. Composer. Austin Wintory.
At the ARENA premiere of US AND THE GAME INDUSTRY. 2013. Los Angeles. MC. Anthoney Marconi.( Right). Jenova Chen and Jason Rohrer in discourse.
MC. Marconi with Tracey Fullerton. Teacher to the team that graduated out of USC ( University of Southern California) on an MA course.
We had the Technology BOOM , pretty well as Peter Leyden spelt this out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zoCpFfOH04&ab_channel=Freethink
Director. Stephanie Beth. On Set. IN JOY (1980). Parnell. Auckland.
I Want to be Joan(1977)
lumiere cinemas
The night in 2009 that I photographed Jenova Chen for the first time and told him and thanked him that I knew he would be in my film US AND THE GAME INDUSTRY. San Francisco. At the time of that year's GDC, in this image, he grinned. He had to rush off to meeting. We were all brimming with interest to allow me to proceed with producing a film. 2009
Short essay
The non fiction film