https://www.firstencounterproductions.com/blog-1 daily 0.75 2020-04-11 https://www.firstencounterproductions.com/blog-1/2018/10/5/ruth monthly 0.5 2018-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a1748ae4b0d38e0ecfc970/1538780926474-G6SV7SELAPM675V5ON1G/RuthTweaksDialogue First Encounters Blog - Guest Post by ANYA's Science Advisor, Ruth McCole Ruth McCole (right) and Ting Wu tweak ANYA’s dialogue to bring it closer to the way research geneticists talk to each other in the lab. (At Harvard Medical School with Carylanna Taylor (Writer/Producer). Photo by Jacob Okada. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a1748ae4b0d38e0ecfc970/1541649916470-6GN7KKL0JB5AOPKDB7Q3/RuthWatchingANYASceneSheWrote First Encounters Blog - Guest Post by ANYA's Science Advisor, Ruth McCole Ruth watches actors Motell Foster and Barbara Rosenblat perform a scene she wrote. (At Carnegie Mellon University with Nick Carignan (sound) and Jacob Okada (Writer/Director/DP). 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Photo by Jacob Okada. https://www.firstencounterproductions.com/blog-1/2018/7/30/color-correction monthly 0.5 2018-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a1748ae4b0d38e0ecfc970/1532966703655-SFI1WC4S2Y3J8I51P7OV/ANYA_BeforeAfterColorCorrection.png First Encounters Blog - Color-Correction Discovery https://www.firstencounterproductions.com/blog-1/2018/7/27/delivery monthly 0.5 2018-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a1748ae4b0d38e0ecfc970/1532819549978-U38LCAZJD7TKWHFYL98O/Anya_PremiereScreengrabs_ProjectDelivery.png First Encounters Blog - Delivering my First Feature: #LessonsLearned #NotesToSelf 1) Triple check that no clips are "grouped" or "linked" before deleting. Sometimes it's only clear much later that something has gone that shouldn't. 2) When condensing video into a single track, make sure to first remove any masks. 3) Start testing delivery files well before finishing the edit. 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Originally from southwestern Pennsylvania, she spent over twenty years teaching and researching in Latin America and the US with a focus on migration, environment, and development. Her academic work (PhD, University of South Florida; MS, Cornell; BA, Penn State) received recognition through National Science Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency, and Fulbright grants. In 2012, she met filmmaker Jacob Okada and began applying anthropology through film. Alongside Jacob, she produced the documentary PAINTING THE WAY TO THE MOON (2015) and wrote and produced the genetics and anthropology inspired feature ANYA (2019). In 2020, at the height of the pandemic, they moved to LA for Carylanna to pursue an MFA in Producing at the AFI Conservatory (2022). At AFI she produced six shorts and interned in development with Oscar-winning production companies including Bona Fide, ImageMovers, and The Population. Carylanna currently serves as Director of Sales & Acquisitions for the NYC-based The Film Sales Company. Through FSC and her work as an Impact Producer for films like BAD FAITH, she helps indie filmmakers bring their stories to audiences around the world. She enjoys mentoring interns and new filmmakers through panels and workshops, including her popular six hour GOTHAM course on working with a sales agent. In her free time, Carylanna continues to develop new films and volunteers as a presenter with the National Alliance on Mental Health’s Ending the Silence Program. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a1748ae4b0d38e0ecfc970/1592176052441-J1C48Q3CEQCBWPK8E6M9/JacobOkada_2020.jpg About Us - Jacob Okada, PGA Writer/Director/Producer LinkedIn | IMDb | jacob@1efilms.com Born in Manhattan to a Japanese-American photographer and Jewish-Romanian author, Jacob is no stranger to culture crossing. After earning his BFA from NYU, Jacob worked as a producer, editor, and director of photography on over a dozen documentary films and network series that have aired on HBO, PBS, Netflix, and National Geographic. He currently freelances as a story producer on Nat Geo Wild’s DR. K’s EXOTIC ANIMAL ER and SECRETS OF THE ZOO. He has directed, shot, and produced two documentaries, CURTIS (2004, Sundance Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking) and PAINTING THE WAY TO THE MOON, as well as three narrative shorts. Jacob shot and co-produced the Emmy nominated documentary OFF AND RUNNING (2010 Tribeca Film Festival, PBS), about transracial adoption in the United States. He was associate editor of NEW YEAR BABY (PBS), about a family’s survival of the Khmer Rouge. Jacob is committed to telling stories that have social impact and artistic integrity. ANYA (2019) is his narrative debut as writer, director, and producer. 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