PRESS

Pressure Cooker - A Very Healthy Meal —Hammer to Nail

Has All the Right Ingredients —New York Post

Pressure Cooker Explores Identity, High School Culinary Class —The Village Voice

More than one recipe for success —Boxoffice Magazine

Uplifting Documentary Chronicles Dedicated Teacher's Tireless Effort to Inspire Pupils —News Blaze

Jennifer and Wilma Stephenson Interviewed on CBS News New York

"...it's hard to beat the humanity of Jennifer Grausman and Mark Becker's Pressure Cooker...with its engaging and ultimately emotional look at the turning point in the lives of these children through the use vice of cooking."
Read the full story. —Michael Lerman, indiewire.com

Laff '08 Interview with Pressure Cooker Directors Jennifer Grausman and Mark Becker —indiewire.com

"Pressure Cooker is a completely uplifting documentary that charms in unexpected ways and teaches invaluable lessons—both culinary as well as life." Read the full story. —Brit Whithey, Rocky Mountain News

"Well-paced and expertly edited, the film is especially moving as it tracks the growing affection between the students and their offbeat teacher, who, as one student says, is more of a mom than my mom." Read the full story.

—Sarah Coleman, Independent Magazine

"...inspiring, sweet and emotionally honest." Read the full story.

—Stina Seig, Post Independent

"The filmmaking is unobtrusive, emotions arent forced, but the film is quite moving." Read the full story. —Harris Smith, Negative Pleasure

"This one's a bonafide charmer...it's a better version of Mad Hot Ballroom, another inner city public school set documentary that charmed audiences a few years back." Read the full story. —Warren Curry, Einsider

"Pressure Cooker is a dynamic film that inspires faith in what motivated students can do if given the opportunity and stimulated by a dedicated, savvy teacher." Read the full story. —William Wolf, Wolf Entertainment Guide

Feel the 'Pressure' —S.T. VanAirsdale, The Reeler