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World Premiere Los Angeles.
US AND THE GAME INDUSTRY has been officially selected for the DANCES WITH FILMS festival in Los Angeles this year.
DWF is in its 16th year. It is held in the famous Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Blvd, a complex that has recently been lovingly renovated. There are 98 films screening, with seven out of the 98 documentaries.
People who are thinking of attending may book directly to the Theatre for a seat.
The development community is excited to be heading soon as subjects to the big screen.
More NEWS shall come to hand. Clay Westervelt is on hand at the screening for Q&A.
We also have an announcement soon on who is walking the carpet on opening night.US AND THE GAME INDUSTRY – June 6, 2.45 pm
TCL Theatre Chinese Theatre
6925 Hollywood Blvd Hollywood, CA 90028
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the film
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- To new histories of games, the film is a salute piece. The developers in this film have built games deliverable to Network, PC Windows, MacOS X and IOS. Each developer works his/her own fit. In a lifetime some will stay working solo or in small teams. Others may work in large teams.
Jason Rohrer, an active thinker about genres of game design has been a programmer and sole developer of short games for more than four years. He is to reveal his next game, THE CASTLE DOCTRINE in the film.
thatgamecompany’s latest completed product, JOURNEY, was an adventure game held to the form of a mono myth. It became the largest PS3 game download of all time. It was the first multi-layer game from a company now making further progressions with on-line material. Then producer, Robin Hunicke, Austin Wintory, composer for JOURNEY, creative director, Jenova Chen and engineers of the JOURNEY feature significantly during the film in process discussions over 2009-2011.
Douglas Wilson (Die Gute Fabrik), describes himself as embracing ‘big tent’ philosophies about games developments. He is producing a swamp opera this year titled MUTAZIONE.
Zach Gage (SpellTower) is a concept artist and a relative newcomer to games design. SpellTower is an award winning IOS game. Gage is known for minimal, systemic beauty in games design.
Alexander Bruce (Demruth) worked five years on one adventure experience for the mind, Antichamber. It uses non- ecludiean geometry. Bruce describes it as a psychological game to “mess with your head”. It gained regular press and was test played hundreds of times during it’s evolution in it’s commercial build from 2010 to before it’s late 2012 release.
The film is due in 2013.
- To new histories of games, the film is a salute piece. The developers in this film have built games deliverable to Network, PC Windows, MacOS X and IOS. Each developer works his/her own fit. In a lifetime some will stay working solo or in small teams. Others may work in large teams.
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the developers
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the filmmakers
the filmmakers
Stephanie Beth
In 2009 Stephanie founded Common Dreams LTC. Over some decades of involvement with documentary production and teaching with and about media, she has sustained an ethnographic interest in the human condition in the modern and then contemporary world.
Filmography
I Want to be Joan (1977)
The film was born as a commissioned work out of a United Womens' Convention. "The organizing committee asked me to make something of the conference, take free reign to "find a topic and choose an approach." 1977 was a catalytic, informative and energetic time for debate and experience for women in public spaces. 1977 was an ideological time for feminist thought."
IN JOY (1980)
A film on patterns of play, improvisation and performance devised as a workshop for women who had experienced domestic violence. It screened at NFT, London and at Universities in New Zealand and the USA and was exhibited at the 27th Oberhausen Documentary Film Festival.
HULOO (2008) (co-producer)
Robin Greenberg's film about a T'ai Chi master from China who was employed in the New Zealand fisheries from 1967, and who was part of a crew who sailed an old Chinese junk from Taiwan to San Francisco in 1955 without sailing experience. Greenberg's sequel film is called "The Free China Junk" (2010).Clay Westervelt
After receiving both the Bush and Kodak Awards for Excellence in Cinematography, Clay graduated with a MFA from USC's School of Cinema-Television, immediately filming pilots for every major network. He established the look of series such as Life of Luxury with Robin Leach (ABC) and Gene Simmons: Family Jewels (A&E).
Clay branched into directing with Thursday afternoon, winning additional writing and directing awards while playing on PBS, The Sundance Channel, and in film festivals internationally.
He established Martini Crew Booking as a gear and service provider for television and film productions in 2000. While at Martini, Clay filmed the Emmy-winning documentary The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club.
In 2003, Clay formed Imaginaut Entertainment, Inc, producing the award-winning series Storyline Online, featuring such talents as Elijah Wood, Betty White, James Earl Jones, and Al Gore.
Imaginaut releases its first feature documentary, Popatopolis, this spring, and is in post on a heartwarming doc about a pageant for young disabled girls.
Clay resides in the Silverlake area of Los Angeles with his wife and daughter, and is now in development on multiple documentaries and pilots while writing two feature screenplays.
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press
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- Sebastian Moss, Playstationlifesyle, spoke with Stephanie Beth (Director) last month. Though we have since passed into kickstarter nirvana, there is a bit of chat here you may still enjoy that gives some of the film's back history. Cheers.
Read the first part of the interview here: PlayStation LifeStyle, 16 March 2012
Click here to read the second part. - "We chat to Stephanie Beth, the filmmaker behind Us and The Game Industry, a new feature-length documentary profiling indie talent."
Read the full article here: GameSpot.com, 20 March 2012 - "Set for release this winter, the documentary film Us and the Game Industry promises to explore the motivations of indie developers like thatgamecompany. Filmmaker Stephanie Beth tells us what she learned from a new era of rebellious entertainment."
Read the full article here: The Guardian, 12 March 2012
Read the Spanish Translation here
Kickstarting a Journey: "Us and the Game Industry", An Indie Film About Indie Development
Us and The Game Industry: A New Indie Game Film
Us and the Game Industry – how indie games are the new counter-culture
- Sebastian Moss, Playstationlifesyle, spoke with Stephanie Beth (Director) last month. Though we have since passed into kickstarter nirvana, there is a bit of chat here you may still enjoy that gives some of the film's back history. Cheers.
