LETTERBOXED
https://letterboxd.com/director/stephanie-beth/
films in shooting order
I Want to be Joan 1977
IN JOY 19980
US AND THE GAME INDUSTRY 2013
US AND THE GAME INDUSTRY (2013)
Stephanie Beth made the documentary US AND THE GAME INDUSTRY (2013), a curious world view. This Photo grid shows individuals in the doco. It includes the musical composer and Producers of JOURNEY, a play station videogame from SONY Entertainments. Stephanie approached Jenova Chen and Kellee Santiago, co-producers, and Chen, specifically, as creative director of
the game JOURNEY at thatgamecompany, early in this process. Filmed during this game build the film became a modest landmark view of creative processes of independent developers of the 2009 - 2012 period.
Photo assembly by Stephanie from 2010 - 2012.
Edmund McMillan, (developer) Stephanie Beth(Producer/Director) Daniel Bermagui (developer) call into the Moscone Center awards night, San Francisco, after having spent some hours at the 2009 Nintendo Awards. 2009
Edmund won an award for Coil (2008) that year. It was an Experimental Flash Game.
Stephanie Diary
For 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.
text the non-fiction film
ARENA CINEMA PREMIERE
Los Angeles 2013
Dances with Films Film Festival
2013
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 Fesitival. Dances with films. 2013. Left. Game Developer. Jenova Chen. Developer. Jason Rohrer. Rohrer. Jnr, co-producer Clay Westervelt. Composer. Austin Wintory.
Premiere night. 2013. Los Angeles. Arena Cinema.
At the ARENA premiere of US AND THE GAME INDUSTRY. 2013. Los Angeles. MC. Anthoney Marconi. (Right). Jenova Chen and Jason Rohrer in discourse. See Jenova in 2009 below, after the film first group talk.
MC. Marconi with Professor Tracey Fullerton. USC. (University of Southern California) Teacher to some that graduated out of USC on an MA course, some of these forming thatgamecompany.
We had the Technology BOOM, pretty well as Peter Leyden spelt this out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zoCpFfOH04&ab_channel=Freethink
THE EARLIER FILMS
An invitation to Gus Fisher. 2025, at the last day of screening international films by women. Having it all- all. By CIRCUIT.org.nz and
https://2025.aaf.co.nz/whats-on/having-it-all-all-all.html
10th May. 2025.
Gus Fisher Gallery.An exhibition of select video and performance art by artists associated with second-wave Feminism in America and Europe.
Gus Fisher Gallery.An exhibition of select video and performance art by artists associated with second-wave Feminism in America and Europe.
A question sent to me.
Q. Why was the documentary IN JOY (1980) titled IN JOY?
A. The derivation is to the well-used language description of feeling - state of feeling.from
Hebrewsimcha (שמחה) In Joy
A. The derivation is to the well-used language description of feeling - state of feeling.from
Hebrewsimcha (שמחה) In Joy
https://heartofthecity.co.nz/auckland-events/joy-1980-circuit-artist-moving-image
Director. Stephanie Beth. On Set. IN JOY (1980). Parnell. Auckland.
Second SCREENING IN 2025 in Auckland. The Ellen Melville center.
I Want to be Joan (1977) here
VIDEOGAME DIRECTOR JENOVA CHEN
The night in 2009 that I photographed Jenova Chen for the first time. He grinned. He had to rush off to a meeting. We were all brimming with interest to allow me to proceed with producing a film.
I had telephoned Jenova in 2008 before I left home, saying that I wished to meet him.
