In the News
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Articles
  bullet point Jessica Fischer featured on cover of WLS Magazine.
   
  bullet point What's So Funny? Selected to Screen at NYC’s Anthology Film Archives
Upstage Magazine
  bullet point Weight Loss Heavy Subject for Film   DesMoines Register
 
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Awards
  bullet point Best Feature Documentary, 2005 Golden Film Festival Golden, CO
   
  bullet point Documentary Award of Excellence, 2004 Berkeley Video and Film Festival, Berkeley, CA
 
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Festival/Other Screenings
    COMING SOON!
  bullet point New Filmmakers (at Anthology Film Archives) (June 22, 2005)
 
    PAST SCREENINGS:
  bullet point Tupelo Film Festival (May 14, 2005)
  bullet point Trenton Film Festival (April 30, 2005)

Screening as part of the "Social Issues" portion of the festival.

  bullet point Cinequest Online (March 2005)

Screened as part of the Viewer's Choice film competition.

  bullet point Golden Film Festival (February 26, 2005)

*Winner of BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY and nominated for the Audience Choice Award.

  bullet point Magnolia Film Festival (February 19, 2005)

Screened to a packed Saturday night showcase audience at this sister festival to the
Rhode Island International Film Festival.

  bullet point 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.
  bullet point 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.
  bullet point Cinewomen NY Monthly Screening Series (September 28, 2004)
    Read the announcement here.
  bullet point 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.
 
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TV/Radio Coverage
  bullet point 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.
    Jessie on the Jane Pauley Show     Jessie on the Jane Pauley Show