Mission: Joy - Finding Happiness in Troubled Times

Cinephile deep dive

The take

Louie Psihoyos directs. Matt Stamm cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in Afrikaans, English, Tibetan.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

• 185 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
• 2Released 4 years ago.
• 3Dialogue crosses 3 languages: Afrikaans, English, Tibetan.
• 4Editor Matt Stamm shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
• 5Tenzin Gyatso and Desmond Tutu and Thupten Jinpa carry the top of the cast.
• 6IMDB entry: tt14779306 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
• 7Only 5 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Editing

Matt Stamm

Runtime

85 min · 1h 25m

Status

Released

Original language

EN

IMDB

Mission: Joy - Finding Happiness in Troubled Times (2022) ↗

Also by

Louie Psihoyos

• 
  The Cove

  2009 · ★ 8.0
• 
  Racing Extinction

  2015 · ★ 7.8
• 
  The Game Changers

  2019 · ★ 7.3
• 
  The Plastic Detox

  2026 · ★ 6.9
• 
  You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment

  2024 · ★ 6.6

Production companies

Who made it

• 

  The Film Collaborative

  US

• 

  Artemis Rising

  US

• 

  Diamond Docs

  US

Key crew

• ProducerMark Monroe
• Executive ProducerTommee May
• EditorMatt Stamm
• Executive ProducerOrly Ravid
• Executive ProducerJane Kachmer
• Executive ProducerRegina K. Scully
• Executive ProducerJamie Drummond
• Executive ProducerDamien de Froberville
• Executive ProducerConnie Kemmerer
• Executive ProducerMari Snyder Johnson
• Executive ProducerShannon Sedgwick Davis
• Executive ProducerPam Omidyar
• Executive ProducerBridgit Lombard
• Executive ProducerJoni Winston
• Co-DirectorPeggy Callahan
• Executive ProducerPaulo Lima
• EditorAndrew Buckland
• Executive ProducerJessie Creel
• Executive ProducerRip Gellein
• ProducerPeggy Callahan
• Executive ProducerGeralyn White Dreyfous
• Executive ProducerDarla K. Anderson
• Executive ProducerShannon O'Leary Joy
• Executive ProducerSusan Bauer-Wu

Release history · US

When it landed

• Premiere2021-06-12· Tribeca Film Festival
• Digital2023-10-31· Netflix

Also known as

International titles

• Mission: Joy - Finding Happiness in Troubled TimesUS
• Mission: Joy - Finding Happiness in Troubled TimesGB
• Mission: Joy - Finding Happiness in Troubled TimesSG
• 喜悅：達賴喇嘛遇見屠圖主教TW
• Misja: szczęściePL
• Αποστολή: Χαρά - Βρίσκοντας την ευτυχία σε ταραγμένους καιρούςGR
• Mission: Joy - Zuversicht & Freude in bewegten ZeitenDE
• ミッション・ジョイJP
• ミッション・ジョイ～困難な時に幸せを見出す方法～JP