ANYA screening and Q&A time/date TBD.
Check Westercon 73’s website for the latest on potential COVID-19 related scheduling changes.
***Rescheduled from April to October as a COVID-19 Precaution.***
***Postponed to May 2020 as a COVID-19 precaution. Date/time TBD.***
Check Inwood Film Festival’s website for the latest on rescheduling the March 2020 event.
In honor of Anthropology Day, 2/20/2020, ANYA will be available for a 20% discount from 2/18-2/25 on Vimeo (promo code ANYA2020). From 8am-10pm EST, Anthropologist and ANYA co-creator Carylanna Taylor, will be holding drop in chat sessions on Facebook and Twitter . To request a free Skype Q&A session on/near 2/20/20 contact Carylanna at info@1efilms.com).
Free & open to the public.
Reserve a ticket to guarantee your seat.
Join The Science Of Winston-Salem and Wake Forest University as we host a free screening and panel discussion at Aperture Cinema with ANYA screenwriter/producer Carylanna Taylor and a panel of researchers from Wake Forest University.
ANYA Screening
BERLIN SCI-FI FILMFEST
November 29-30, 2019
ANYA Time/Date TBD
ANYA Screening & Reception w/ filmmaker Q&A
New Filmmakers - New York
Anthology Film Archive
New York, NY
Time: 8-9 Reception, 9-11 film and Q&A
Screening with filmmaker Q&A
Attend: Tickets via Facebook event
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE
Free & Open to the Public
UC Riverside - INTS 1128
Join UCR's Department of Anthropology, the Center for Ideas & Society, and Speculative Fictions & Cultures of Science for a film screening and director Q&A.
What a pleasure to get to share ANYA with the amazing folks behind the UCSC Genome Browser, software that ANYA’s fictional scientist “Dr. Seymour Livingston” uses on screen and ANYA’s science advisor Dr. Ruth McCole uses in real life!
Screening & Discussion Panel
University of California San Francisco
Mission Bay Campus
Rock Hall Auditorium
1550 4th St.
San Francisco, CA 94158
Movie: 5pm
Panel 6:30pm
FREE and open to the public
ANYA Screening & Panel Discussion
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Hosted by Bay Area Science Festival, Noisebridge Hackerspace, and UCSF ASGD.
Screening with filmmaker Q&A
UCONN - Institute for Systemic Genomics
Student Union Theater
Storrs, CT
Time: TBD (evening)
Attend: Facebook event
Scientista Symposium: Carylanna placed in the Pitch Competition. Her pitch? ANYA outreach
Portland, OR
SfAA website
New York, NY
Time TBD
New York City Skeptics events
In this public lecture, ANYA co-creator Carylanna Taylor will discuss how a casual thought experiment with her writing/producing partner Jacob Okada developed into a feature film. ANYA is a love story and genetics mystery coming in 2019. The film began in 2014 with Jacob's seemingly random question: how do species diverge? Drawing on experience teaching evolution in Intro to Anthropology, Carylanna gave a basic answer about fertility and genetic drift. Later that day, Jacob asked "Would you still marry me if I were a different species of humans?" ANYA's story about a couple and the evolutionary geneticist who discovered the unusual source of their infertility was born. We wrote the first draft over the next few months.
To come up with a concrete, plausible source of speciation, we reached out to the National Academy of Science's Science & Entertainment Exchange. They connected us with two amazing geneticists at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Ting Wu and Dr. Ruth McCole lent their research on ultra-conserved elements of DNA to the film and became our science advisors, allowing us to observe their work, inviting us to events of the Personal Genetics Education Project (pgEd), reviewing scripts, and advising us on set. Our collaboration led to a movie that is far richer than our original script: ANYA tackles contemporary issues in genetics such as diversity in the scientific community, research ethics, DNA testing among vulnerable populations, and gene-editing.
Because of the research that went into making the film, ANYA has already scooped headlines and is likely to scoop more. In November 2018 news broke that a Chinese scientist appeared to have successfully created a "CRISPR baby." We filmed a similar plot point in summer 2017!
In addition of the overview of ANYA's development, the lecture will include the film trailer, a sneak peak scene highlighting the knowledge gap between researchers and participants, and pre-recorded comments for The New York Skeptics Society by ANYA's science advisor, Dr. Ruth McCole.
St. Louis, MO
Time TBD
Conference website
American Anthropological Association Meetings: Carylanna talks about ANYA on Applying the Anthropological Imagination Panel
San Jose, CA
Personal Genetics Education Project’s (pgEd): “On May 19-20, 2016, over 40 representatives from healthcare, education, business, government, film/TV, and communities of faith came together in a one-of-a-kind meeting at Harvard Medical School. The goal of the pgEd Industry Forum for Forging Community Partnerships was to bring together experts from across disciplinary and community divides to explore strategies for tackling the gap in awareness and conversation about personal genetics between well-served and underserved communities.”
Jacob and I attended the two day event and participated in on the “Genetics on Screen - Harnessing the Power of TV and Film to Reach Broad Audiences” panel. We were privileged to share the story of ANYA with an engaged audience consisting of our collaborators at Harvard Medical School’s Department of Genetics, their academic and industry colleagues, and community members.
The forum was an incredible outreach experience for us and we developed new friendships and partnerships, including Jeantine Lunshof, a Harvard based science ethicist, and Richard Lumb, CEO of Front Line Genomics and organizers of the Festival Of Genomics.
Listening to the diverse perspectives presented in the Industry Forum profoundly shaped how we presented the Narvals’ reaction to becoming active subjects of genetics research.
