| In the News | |||
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| Articles | |||
| Jessica Fischer featured on cover of WLS Magazine. | |||
for more information visit www.wlslifestyles.com |
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What's So Funny? Selected to Screen at NYC’s Anthology Film Archives
Upstage Magazine |
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| Weight Loss Heavy Subject for Film DesMoines Register | |||
| Awards | |||
| Best Feature Documentary, 2005 Golden Film Festival Golden, CO | |||
![]() Jessica Fischer receiving the award on behalf of the production team for What's So Funny? |
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| Documentary Award of Excellence, 2004 Berkeley Video and Film Festival, Berkeley, CA | |||
| Festival/Other Screenings | |||
| COMING SOON! | |||
| New Filmmakers (at Anthology Film Archives) (June 22, 2005) | |||
| PAST SCREENINGS: | |||
| Tupelo Film Festival (May 14, 2005) | |||
| Trenton Film Festival
(April 30, 2005) Screening as part of the "Social Issues" portion of the festival. |
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| Cinequest Online (March 2005)
Screened as part of the Viewer's Choice film competition. |
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| Golden Film Festival
(February 26, 2005) *Winner of BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY and nominated for the Audience Choice Award. |
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| Magnolia Film Festival
(February 19, 2005)
Screened to a packed Saturday night showcase audience at this sister festival to the |
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| St. John's Women's International Film Festival (October 23, 2004) | |||
| Selected as one of two showcase films for the Saturday night finale of the St. John's Women's International Film. | |||
| Reality Bites Screening Event in Nyack, NY (October 16-17, 2004) | |||
| Screened as part of this cutting edge documentary screening forum's "Women Making Films About Funny Women" fortnight. | |||
| Cinewomen NY Monthly Screening Series (September 28, 2004) | |||
| Read the announcement here. | |||
| Rhode Island International Film Festival (August 14, 2004) | |||
| Enjoyed its world premiere at the prestigious Rhode Island International Film Festival. The film was selected as one of 265 films chosen from a pool of 1328 entries. | |||
| TV/Radio Coverage | |||
| What's So Funny? star Jessica Fischer featured on the Jane Pauley Show (September 2004) | |||
| Jessica Fischer, the subject of the recently completed feature documentary What's So Funny?, appeared as a guest on the September 22nd episode of the nationally syndicated Jane Pauley Show. The topic of the show concerned the psychological effects of weight loss, and Ms. Fischer was both compelling and entertaining as she discussed her emotional transformation after losing more than 160 pounds subsequent to undergoing gastric bypass surgery. | |||
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