Screening Resources
Hosting a Screening of
The Jollytologist®?
Thank you for sharing The Jollytologist® with your community!
Below you will find downloadable materials to help you plan and promote your screening, including press images, social media graphics, the film trailer, a customizable flyer, film descriptions, and a discussion guide.
We hope these resources make it easy to create a meaningful event that inspires laughter, reflection, and conversation about the ways humor, awe, and a positive attitude can help us navigate life’s most difficult moments.
Press and Promotional Images
Click the button below to download high-resolution photographs and promotional graphics for your website, newsletter, press outreach, or social media.
Image Categories:
Film stills
Photographs of Allen Klein
Photographs of Allen Klein and filmmaker Sky Bergman
Promotional graphics for Instagram and Facebook
Horizontal graphics for newsletters, websites, and LinkedIn
Official film poster
Director headshot
Please include the appropriate photo credit whenever one is provided with the image.
Film Trailer
Share the official trailer for The Jollytologist® on your website, in email announcements, and across social media.
Click below to download the trailer or access the embed code for your website.
Discussion Guide
Continue the conversation after the film with the official The Jollytologist® Discussion Guide.
The guide includes questions and activities designed to help audiences explore the film’s central themes, including:
Humor as a tool for resilience
Finding light during difficult times
Grief, loss, and healing
Awe and everyday wonder
The importance of perspective
Creating meaningful connections
Recognizing life’s “mini-miracles”
Bringing more joy and positivity into our daily lives
The guide can be used by community organizations, educational institutions, libraries, healthcare organizations, grief-support programs, faith communities, workplaces, and groups interested in positive aging and emotional well-being.
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Customizable Screening Flyer
Download the customizable flyer and add your screening date, time, location, registration information, and sponsoring organization.
A print-ready version of the official film poster is also available.
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Film Descriptions
Copy and paste one of the descriptions below, depending on the space available in your event listing, newsletter, website, or press materials.
Very Short Description
The Jollytologist® follows Allen Klein, whose life’s work reveals how humor, awe, and a positive attitude can help us find hope and resilience, even during life’s most difficult moments.
Short Description
In a world often overshadowed by hardship, Allen Klein, the world’s first Jollytologist®, shows how humor, awe, and a positive attitude can transform our lives. Through Allen’s remarkable story, The Jollytologist® explores the power of laughter to help us navigate grief, illness, loss, and adversity.
Medium Description
After losing his wife at a young age, Allen Klein discovered that humor had been one of their most powerful tools for navigating illness, grief, and loss. That experience changed the course of his life.
Allen went on to become the world’s first Jollytologist®, dedicating more than four decades to helping people find hope, healing, and perspective through humor. In The Jollytologist®, Allen shares the experiences and insights that shaped his extraordinary journey, from his childhood in the Bronx and his early career as a scenic designer for CBS television to his work as an internationally recognized speaker and bestselling author.
Warm, moving, and filled with unexpected moments of laughter, the film reminds us that even in difficult times, we can discover joy, awe, connection, and what Allen calls life’s “mini-miracles.”
Long Description
After losing his wife, Ellen, to a rare liver disease when she was only 34, Allen Klein discovered that humor had been one of their most powerful tools for coping with illness, uncertainty, and grief. That realization changed the course of his life and inspired a mission that would continue for more than four decades.
Born and raised in the Bronx, Allen began his career as a scenic designer for CBS television, where his work included the beloved children’s program Captain Kangaroo. He later earned a master’s degree in human development with a focus on therapeutic humor and became the world’s first Jollytologist®.
Through his books, lectures, and workshops, Allen has helped people around the world find moments of light during some of life’s darkest experiences. His work explores not only the healing possibilities of humor, but also the importance of awe, perspective, gratitude, and the small, unexpected experiences he calls “mini-miracles.”
The Jollytologist® is an intimate and uplifting portrait of a man whose life demonstrates that laughter does not diminish pain or hardship. Instead, it can give us the strength, connection, and perspective we need to move through them. Filled with wisdom, warmth, and humor, the film invites audiences to notice the joy that still exists around us and to consider how a little laughter might transform our lives.
About Allen Klein
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Allen Klein is an award-winning speaker, bestselling author, and the world’s first Jollytologist®. For more than four decades, he has helped people use humor, positivity, and perspective to navigate loss, illness, change, and adversity.
After losing his wife, Ellen, to a rare liver disease when she was 34, Allen recognized that humor had been one of their most meaningful coping tools. That experience inspired him to devote his life to helping others discover moments of light in difficult times.
Before becoming the Jollytologist®, Allen worked as a scenic designer for CBS television in New York, including on the beloved children’s program Captain Kangaroo. He later earned a master’s degree in human development with a focus on therapeutic humor.
Allen has written more than 30 books, including The Healing Power of Humor, The Courage to Laugh, Embracing Life After Loss, and The AWE Factor. His work has been translated into numerous languages, and he has shared his message with audiences around the world, from corporate conferences and healthcare organizations to hospice centers and community groups.
About the Filmmaker
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Sky Bergman is an award-winning filmmaker, photographer, author, and Professor Emeritus of Photography and Video at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo.
Her nationally broadcast PBS documentary Lives Well Lived celebrates the wit, wisdom, and experiences of adults ages 75 to 100. The film has screened in hundreds of communities and inspired intergenerational programs that bring younger and older people together through storytelling and shared experiences.
Her documentary The Mochi Movie, featuring actor and activist George Takei, explores the Japanese American tradition of making mochi as a lens into resilience, identity, history, and intergenerational connection.
Sky creates films and projects that celebrate the richness of the human experience and demonstrate the power of shared stories to foster empathy, understanding, and connection.
Learn more about her work at SkyBergmanProductions.com.
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Tips for Hosting a Meaningful Screening
A screening of The Jollytologist® can be more than a film presentation. It can create an opportunity for people to reflect, connect, and share their own experiences.
Consider including:
A moderated conversation after the film
A question-and-answer session with a local expert
A discussion about humor, grief, resilience, or positive aging
An invitation for audience members to share a “mini-miracle”
A display of Allen Klein’s books
A community resource table
A laughter, gratitude, or awe activity
Refreshments and informal conversation after the program
The downloadable discussion guide includes additional questions and activities to help you plan your event.
Stay Connected
Follow The Jollytologist® for film news, screening announcements, and ideas for bringing more humor, awe, and positivity into everyday life.
Suggested Social Media Copy
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General Screening Announcement
Join us for a screening of The Jollytologist®, an inspiring documentary about Allen Klein, who has spent more than four decades helping people discover how humor, awe, and a positive attitude can carry us through loss, illness, and adversity.
Through Allen’s remarkable life story, the film reminds us that laughter is more than entertainment. It can be a source of connection, resilience, hope, and healing.
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Learn more about the film at TheJollyFilm.com.
Short Social Media Post
Discover the power of humor, awe, and a positive attitude.
Join us for a screening of The Jollytologist®, an uplifting documentary about Allen Klein and his lifelong mission to help people find light during life’s most difficult moments.
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Post Featuring Allen Klein
Can laughter help us through grief, illness, and adversity?
After losing his wife at a young age, Allen Klein discovered that humor had been one of their most powerful coping tools. He went on to become the world’s first Jollytologist® and has spent decades helping people find hope and healing through humor.
Join us for a screening of The Jollytologist® and discover how small moments of laughter, awe, and positivity can transform our lives.
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