Steven Fischer
Emmy-Nominated Filmmaker • Writer/Producer/Cartoonist
A Zen-like perspective on creativity, storytelling, and the healing power of the arts.
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Biography
About Steven
Steven Fischer is a two-time Emmy nominated filmmaker and two-time Fulbright Award recipient. His film credits include Freedom Dance (featuring Golden Globe winner Mariska Hargitay), Old School New School (with Grammy winner McCoy Tyner and Emmy winner Brian Cox), and Life and Deaths of Max Linder (Canal+ France, TVP Poland, with Adam Levi of The Witcher).
Steven is internationally recognized as an authority on the nature of creativity, especially as it relates to processing personal conflict, and has received speaking invitations from organizations throughout North America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East — including Harvard Medical School, The University of Tokyo, and Cunard.
An eloquent, articulate, and inspiring speaker, Steven creates an approachable and inviting energy that draws audiences in and invites them to participate. His passion for art, cartooning, and creativity is palpable and energizing.
Industries Served
- Higher Education
- Arts & Culture
- Healthcare & Wellness
- Luxury Cruise & Hospitality
- Film & Media
Most Requested
Signature Messages
Cartoons That Heal
How autobiography and cartooning combine to help address trauma, create meaning from upsetting experiences, and find understanding that transcends judgement and criticism.
Ways We Nurture Creativity
Two-time Emmy-nominated writer/producer/cartoonist Steven Fischer dissects the creative process, outlines the foundation of creativity, and shares the ways his own creativity has been nurtured.
A Safe Space to Create
Originally commissioned as a lecture to the Faculty of Manga at Kyoto Seika University — exercises and methods that help writers and creators access hidden memories and repressed feelings, then channel those discoveries into personal stories.
Value Delivered
What Your Audience Will Gain
Audiences will gain a better understanding of creativity.
Recognize that they are creative and be inspired by their own natural creativity.
See more clearly what a cartoon is and how cartoon art can help us address personal pain.
Experience new ways to see and feel their emotions.
Be guided through a deep dive into themselves where they will be positioned to identify memories and feelings in ways that combine and create meaning to personal conflict.
On Stage
Presentation Style
Steven Fischer is an eloquent, articulate, and inspiring speaker who creates an approachable and inviting energy that draws audiences in and allows them to participate in the talk.
His passion for art, cartooning, and creativity is palpable and energizing — audiences leave feeling seen, sparked, and creatively alive.
What People Are Saying
Testimonials
"Steven is brilliant at adapting his style to the need of the audience and event while maintaining his authentic presence. Creative, engaged, curious, accessible, kind — a master storyteller and gifted teacher. He understands the creative process, believes to his core in the innate creativity in us all, and knows how to encourage, spark, and help us develop and express it."
"Steven Fischer is an eloquent, articulate and inspiring speaker on ideas. His crafting of words and ideas is exquisite. He has a gift for engaging his audience by evoking expansive reflection, asking the right questions, and distilling comments into cohesive thought."
"A great tool for those considering a life in the arts, and for those already in pursuit of that life — with good, honest, inspirational messages. We enjoyed it and will pass it along to those in our circle and beyond."
"I was surprised how in touch we got with real emotions!"
"I appreciate very much the honesty, heart, wisdom and confidence in being vulnerable that the project and subjects share about their success, process and experiences as artists and humans-being. Thanks for your work and your gift, Steven."
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