Press
Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman
RADIO INTERVIEWS
Radio Tania Interview with Jennifer Fox
March 7, 2008
KQED Interview with Jennifer Fox
March 3, 2008
TELEVISION INTERVIEWS
Sex TV Interview with Jennifer Fox
June 9, 2007
REVIEWS
Love, Work and Documentaries – Review
2010
“Fox fearlessly unpacks questions of sex, money, marriage, fertility and love…”
USA Press – Review Excerpts
2007 – 2008
Prairie Miller – News Blaze
May 15, 2008
“The audience… has been humbled by this cross-cultural experience.”
Judge Christopher Kulik – DVD Verdict
September 24, 2008
“What does it mean to be an “independent woman?” What is the status of women on a global scale? Armed with a camera, Fox travels all over the world to find out.”
Liz Hoggard – The Independent
August 13, 2008
“Fox tackles real sociopolitical issues – from frank discussions about female sexuality to abuse, rape, and prostitution.”
Christina Patterson – The Independent
August 16, 2008
“…kind of like a real-life Sex and the City, but with a global edge.”
Nancy Durrant – The Times
August 5, 2008
“Jennifer Fox travelled the world to find a common bond among women. She turned her quest into a powerful documentary.”
Women’s Voices for Change
August 8, 2008
“Filmmaker Jennifer Fox knows a thing or two about bravery… her new Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman required bravery of a very different kind.”
Britt Wahlen – www.alternet.org
June 8, 2008
“Filmmaker Jennifer Fox turned her camera on women around the world and came back with a radicalized view of feminism and freedom.”
Kam Williams – www.kamwilliams.com
May 15 2008
“A real-life cross of Annie Hall and Erica Jong… Excellent (4 stars).”
LA Weekly
April 30 2008
“by layering her private soap opera…within an expansive meditative probe into the conditions of women everywhere… [Fox] she achieves something artistically sublime and yet emotionally generous.”
Austin Chronicle
April 2008
“We’re riveted… as we eavesdrop on these uninhibited conversations that Fox facilitates using a technique she calls “passing the camera”. In short, she was Carrie, Miranda, and Samantha rolled into one – and content as a hat-tossing Mary Tyler Moore. No wonder Sex and the City creator Candace Bushnell loved this film.”
Mercury News
March 7, 2008
“Fox, who stars in as well as directs the film, is a talented, inquisitive and vivid storyteller. I’d mark how effective FLYING is by the fact that I’m under no obligation to watch the rest of the series, but I’m eager to do so.”
San Francisco Weekly
February 27, 2008
“Fox [is] a sexually liberated, feminist romantic with the remarkable courage to reveal herself on film, [with] high-achieving female friends around the globe whose views of women’s roles are never less than fascinating.”
The Flick Filosopher
January 18, 2008
“Shockingly personal, in that cozy way of a secret female conversation… Fox’s soul-baring honesty and willingness to concede that she is still figuring out this life thing turns… into something profound and universal… Don’t miss it!”
Jewish Scene
November 2007
” ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ (4 Stars!)”
The Brooklyn Rail
October 2007
“[A] totally engrossing six-hour epic… What is true and unique is that Fox has to go it alone and learn what any real explorer knows: the way is deeply uncharted… [a] powerful humanity behind each woman’s (and by inference, each man’s) plight, and the skillful editorial decisions of how to present that plight… Flying is post feminist, in that the freedom that women fought so valiantly to achieve was granted, and then, like a Pandora’s Box, whipped up a whole new set of woes.”
Thompson on Hollywood – Variety Blog
September 30, 2007
“I was fascinated… Fox takes the docu form to a new place as she carries a lightweight Sony PDX 10 DV cam around with her, passing it to other people in conversation and filming herself… [she] found a wide range of articulate women of different classes and cultures, many of whom opened up about their hopes and limitations.”
Remabulous
September 24, 2007
“A thought-provoking offering… this film is asking questions and considering issues that need more air time… There is a much longer conversation that needs to happen all over the world about what being a woman means today, and I thank Fox for starting us off on such a strong and honest foot.”
Chicago Reader
September 14, 2007
“Second best miniseries I’ve seen this year… There are times when Fox’s nervy endeavor to combine art and life obliges one to give way to the other, but her efforts and reflections throughout are riveting.”
Chicago Sun-Times
September 14, 2007
” ☆ ☆ ☆ (3 Stars!) This verite essay explores female sexuality as a key part of female freedom. Fox scrupulously chronicles her own day-to-day life. It’s a credit to her artistry that this doc never veers into icky narcissism.”
New City Chicago
September 11, 2007
“Fox is one of the boldest, brightest, fascinating… ever to move across this much space… Nervy, emotional impact is in each and every passage… There’s a wealth of stuff to talk about after this insistent provocation.”
World Jewish Digest
September 2007
“Don’t miss it… Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman, soars above most of the quickie digital nonfiction movies that have saturated the market of late; over five years in the making, this work is ambitious and innovative. Just as FLYING… was cathartic for the director and her participants to make, it may also prove liberating for viewers.”
LA Times
September 5, 2007
“Fox travels the globe to talk sex, marriage, babies, divorce, work, identity, oppression, socialization and abuse with her fascinating, far-flung friends. And their combined stories add up to something remarkable: a kaleidoscopic meditation on gender-as-destiny.”
BUST Magazine
August/September 2007
“The truth about women’s sex lives is usually more entertaining than any fiction Hollywood could dream up. That’s why hanging out and talking with friends often makes for a better night than going to the movies. In Flying, however, filmmaker Jennifer Fox manages to combine the two… Exactly the kind of film that should be shown to teenage girls in health class.”
NY Times The Arts
Wednesday, July 04, 2007
“By turns playful, sexy, tragic and contemplative, ‘Flying’ is an addictive soap about sexuality and sisterhood. And if that makes the average man’s eyeballs roll, all the more reason for his honey to buy him a ticket.”
TV Guide
July 2007
“By the end of filmmaker Jennifer Fox’s remarkably honest and unexpectedly engrossing self-portrait, you may feel you know her better than you know many of your close friends… In the end this very personal journey becomes a valuable universal document from which we can all learn about the way women live today.”
Doc It Out
Sunday, July 29, 2007
“When I watched Jennifer Fox’s FLYING: Confessions of a Free Woman, I was blown away. I don’t say that often here, so sit up and take note. I’ve never seen a film that connected with me, as a woman, like this movie.”
Toronto Globe and Mail
Monday, July 9, 2007
“Sometimes uncomfortably intimate but compulsively watchable.”
Film-Forward.com
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
“Fox creates a you-are-there intimacy by passing the camera around. Her gregarious openness about her own sexual experiences infectiously draws women in for the most private conversations… Like the best reality television, the camera catches raw moments of love and loss among her friends and family who we have come to know over time.”
BlogHer
Friday, June 29, 2007
“Fox is on a journey to uncover her own personal definition of freedom, a definition that evolves throughout the film. Candid, raw and unflinching, Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman ultimately reveals that real love sets you free, even as it binds you to others.”
Variety Weekly (Film section)
Monday, December 11, 2006
“‘What do women want?’ asked a frustrated Sigmund Freud, and with ‘Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman,’ Jennifer Fox gives him an answer… The nerve it takes to expose herself – and her friends – is matched by Fox’s ability to twist the confessional doc into a globe trotting highbrow soap opera. The work by celebrated Danish editor Niels Pagh Andersen is miraculous. Fox’s technique – ‘passing the camera’ – gives the production a homemade feel. Or perhaps it could be called a woman’s touch. But only in the most respectful sense.”
ENGLISH LANGUAGE PRESS
Women & Hollywood
May 12, 2008 Interview with Jennifer Fox, Director, Producer, and Suject of Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman
by Melissa Silverstein
Independent
May 02, 2008 Interview with Jennifer Fox
by Michele Meek
Still in Motion
November 4, 2007 Finding Reflections for Our Lives
by Pamela Cohn
Edinburgh International Film Festival
August 17, 2007 Interview with Jennifer Fox – Flying High
by Laura Smith
The Guardian
August 7, 2007 My Life on Film
“The series is interesting, I think, because it asks every question that modern feminism should be asking itself, if it is to have any meaningful role in modern political discourse… she’s asking the questions. At least people are still asking the questions.”
NY Times Arts & Leisure
July 1, 2007
“Illuminates the jagged edges of human desire… An eclectic mix of film languages… A personal memoir, feminist manifesto & examination of Global Woman. Ms. Fox… seems intent on reflecting something altogether outside movies. Or even nonfiction. Balzac, perhaps. Or George Eliot.”
Huffington Post
July 13, 2007 Interview with Jennifer Fox – Part One
by Rachel Kramer Bussel
Huffington Post
July 18, 2007 Interview with Jennifer Fox – Part Two
by Rachel Kramer Bussel
IDA Documentary
July/August 2007
“The editing of the massive amounts of footage Fox acquired was entrusted to the award-winning Danish editor Niels Pagh Andersen. The fact that the “confessional” aspect of the film does not deteriorate into a narcissitic, solipsistic mess no doubt owes a great deal to Andersen’s skills.”
Huffington Post
June, 29 2007 Op-Ed
“I Was Not A Feminist”
The Popcorn Reel
June 21, 2007
“Triumphant, fearless, passionate and powerful, “FLYING: Confessions of a Free Woman” is an uninhibited epic of modern day women living, loving and struggling on their own terms and with the men in (and out of) their lives.”
indieWire DOC Column
May 31, 2007
“The narrative thread of Fox’s personal drama with all its sexy bits is the through-line with a serial quality Ébut the magic of the film is revealed in the intimate conversations between her and her friends on all topics on their minds and using Fox’s “passing the camera” technique.”
HOT DOCS
April 2007
“This candid and totally addictive six-part docu-series offers an original look at the modern female lifeÉ Fox fashions a powerful, first-person commentary on the contemporary female condition. Part soap opera, part sociopolitical investigation, Flying is an authentic peek at the drama of daily life and the realizations that can be achieved with the courage of examination.”
The Popcorn Reel
March 22, 2007
“The bottom line is that in “Flying,” women get to tell their story in an uninhibited, uncensored way. The courage and openness shown by the women involved, and their vulnerability as they talk about intimate situations and deeply affecting events in their… make the women heroines.”
The 9th Annual Thessaloniki Festival
March 22, 2007
“Another interesting meeting between directors and their colleagues and the audience took place on Wednesday, March 21 in the context of Just Talking, of the 9th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival – Images of the 21st Century. The participants were Paul Taylor (We Are Together/Troubled Innocence), Jennifer Fox (Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman/Special Screenings), Anna Kessisoglou (Coupapiti: White Man in a Deep Hole/Views of the World). Joining them was Alina Tutoveanu, a buyer for Rumanian television. ”
Blog Sundance
January 24, 2007
“Sundance wasn’t even a day old when The Sundance Channel bought Jennifer Fox’s six-hour film Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman. Shot all over the world across 8 years, the cinematography is a conversation among Fox and the women she meets along the way; they pass a Sony PDX10 back and forth as they circle around and through the subjects of life: survival, freedom, gratitude, loss, power and fear, diminishment and emergence. And gossip. ”
The Hollywood Reporter
January 2007 Sundance Channel Acquisition Announcement
“Even before the festival began, cable channels began nibbling around its edges. The Sundance Channel licensed exclusive US television rights to Jennifer Fox’s six-hour autobiographical film “Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman,” which will debut at the fest. ”
indie WIRE
January 2007 Sundance Channel Acquisition Announcement
“Meanwhile, Sundance Channel took television rights for Jennifer Fox’s “Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman,” which is having its North American debut at Sundance this week. . . in the Spectrum section. ”
Cinematical
January 2007 Sundance Channel Acquisition Announcement
“The Sundance Channel bought the television rights to the six-hour film “Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman,” which will premiere in North America during the festival. The length of the film makes it ideal for television, and Sundance Channel intends to air it as a six-part miniseries. The autobiographical documentary was directed by Jennifer Fox, whose previous film, the ten-hour An American Love Story, also premiered at Sundance back in 1999.”
The Reeler
January 2007 Interview with Jennifer Fox
“So what I did was decide to play around with the camera and figure out if there was a way that the camera could be in the conversation in a way that would be similar to the circular way that women talk… suddenly I meet a woman and I would say, “I want to ask you questions, but you can ask me a question.” And they just start grabbing the camera, and the dynamic totally changed.”
The Popcorn Reel
January 2007
“Fox reveals herself in a candid and open way. Her level of introspection both in “Flying” and in this interview [are] both refreshing and fascinating, just as her documentary subjects have been. In “Flying” she and the women featured literally turn the cameras on themselves, and in a unique way.”
Docs That Inspire
Dec 2, 2006
“My favorite talk at IDFA this year was the master class on editing with director Jennifer Fox and editor Niels Pagh Andersen… I found it remarkable how successfully Fox integrates a lighter, entertainment-style narration into a project with very serious material including sexual abuse.”
The International Voice of IDFA
Dec 1, 2006
“‘I was tired of hiding,’ Jennifer Fox tells Jorn Rossing Jensen. ÔI had to put myself on the line. I couldn’t pretend I was not a woman and this was not my dilemma, by finding another to represent me. In the end, all films are personal, we just hide the authorship. This one is just more transparently personal.’”
FILM #53 – Published by the Danish Film Institute
November 2006
“Presence is at the core of Jennifer Fox’s filmmaking approach. in Flying, the ambition was to go below the surface of some very personal issues. Since Fox wanted to make a film that connected her to other women and their stories, it was essential to find a method of filming that would make room for both Fox’s own story and dramas of other women, creating an equality in the film between the characters and the filmmaker. ”
DOX Documentary Film Magazine
March 2006
“When I understood that much of what had hurt me in my life was because of my gender, which is the same as for most women around the world, I changed. And I think the other women around the world who participated in the film process were also deeply affected by the same realization. Suddenly they understood that their private story was really a universal, female story.”
The Independent
December 2005
FOREIGN LANGUAGE PRESS
NSD – NORRLÄNDSKA SOCIALDEMOKRATEN (Swedish Publication)
November 05, 2007 (Article in Swedish)
Anna (Finnish Magazine)
October 31, 2007 (Article in Finnish)
Salongk (Swedish Publication)
October 28, 2007 (Article in Swedish)
Metro (Swedish Daily Newspaper)
October 26, 2007 (Article in Swedish)
Politiken (Copenhagen Newspaper)
August 12, 2007 (Article in Danish)
Politiken English Translation
Vara TV Magazine
August 17, 2007 (Article in Dutch)
Trouw (Amsterdam Daily Paper)
Nov 29, 2006 (Article in Dutch)
The International Voice of IDFA (Day 
Dec 3, 2006 (Interview in Dutch)
Cinematheque Quebecoise
April 2007 (Interview in French)
Achbar Hair
March 2007 (Interview in Hebrew)
Jutarnji
March 2007 (Interview in Croatian)
Filmski.net
March 2007 (Interview in Croatian)