Stephanie Beth

In 2009 Stephanie founded Common Dreams Ltd. 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."
Excerpt from notes for the exhibition "Weddings & Women" curated in 8 June – 2 July 2011.

IN JOY (1980)
A film on patterns of play, improvisation and performance devised as a workshop for women who had experienced domestic violence. The workshop run by facilitator, Maggie Eyre was partially filmed over five days. 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.