Anna Richards

After graduating from Inglemoor in 2015, alumna Anna Richards (she/her) worked in fields ranging from creating video games to film. Now, she’s pursuing a master’s degree in television writing in Germany.

At her last job, Richards put together the finances of visual effects for Technicolor Creative Studios. One of the largest and most stressful projects she worked on was managing the environments team, who created all the trees and houses for “Avatar: The Way of Water.”

“When I was on Avatar, we had to deal with the director James Cameron, and we had to learn how to work with him and the people below him who had a lot of power and keep them calm when things were stressful,” Richards said. “Even though that’s not a specific skill you learn in school, it’s really been important to my career of handling stressful situations and keeping other people calm.”

Richards said her passion for film originated in her high school IB Film class taught by Katrina Allemeier (she/her).

“Taking Mrs. Allemeier’s IB film class was the first film class I had ever taken, and it really informed my future,” Richards said. “I pursued different areas of film: editing, visual effects and now writing.”

Richards said the film industry is very diverse, with jobs ranging from computer programming to equipment specialists and writers. Her favorite part of the job is bringing ideas to life through film.

“There’s always something different happening every day,” Richards said. “No day is the same as the last, so I really love that about the film industry — it’s always exciting.”