
Assembling the crew earlier this year, I was prepared to do just about anything to get Emily Jones on my team. When I proposed the project to her she was in, but there was a condition. She wanted her cousin, university student Anna Ashford to join us. Heavy sigh. I have bad luck on past projects inviting others I have never met so this was not something I initially would agree to. What if she is high maintenance? What if she just doesn't get what we do? What if she is lazy? And heaven forbid.... what if she doesn't have good chemistry to work with the crew or the people of Nyaka? But wait! Emily and I were on the Nepal trip together. I remembered someone named Anna being discussed in conversations with the physicians I met while filming Hearts In The Himalayas. The doctors raved about her and what a great person she is. They said I absolutely had to meet her. Could she be the same Anna?