7.15.2018

Zala Films is proud to announce the release of Erdős 100 Plus, a compilation of ten videos by George Csicsery on a single DVD. Concentrating on the legacy of Paul Erdős in mathematics, the DVD includes 112 minutes of largely unedited Erdős interviews filmed between 1988 and 1991 for N is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdős. The anchor piece is Erdős 100, a 30-minute video prepared for the centennial celebration in 2013 of Paul Erdős's birth. It contains new interviews mixed with never-before-seen outtakes from N is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdős.

The DVD also includes Something New Every Day, a 21-minute film completed in 2015 on the occasion of Ron Graham's 80th birthday. Four short pieces about the development of combinatorics and the probabilistic method complete the package. Erdős 100 Plus is available now in DVD and Blu-ray disc editions.

5.19.2018

Navajo Math Circles will screen as part of the Missoula Urban Indian Health Center Indigenous Film Festival on May 19 at 10:30 a.m. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion, with participants including mathematician Matt Roscoe of the Department of Mathematical Sciences of the University of Montana, who will appear in person, and Navajo Math Circles professor, Dr. Henry Fowler, who will join via Skype.

The screening and discussion will take place at the Missoula Children's Theatre, 200 N. Adams Street, Missoula, MT 59802. Admission is $5 a day or bring canned goods to donate to the Food Bank. (Link to the entire festival schedule here.)

2.19.2018

Counting from Infinity will screen at the Queen's Film Theatre in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Monday, February 19, at 6:40 p.m., as part of the Northern Ireland Science Festival (February 15-25, 2018). Professor Ivan Todorov of the School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University Belfast, will introduce the film. The screening venue is located at 20 University Square, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

12.13.2017

Navajo Math Circles screens at the Karlstorkino in Heidelberg, Germany, on December 13, one of eight science and mathematics films featured at the week-long (December 9-16) Mathematik Informatik Film Festival, organized by the distinguished Heidelberg Laureate Forum.

11.28.2017

Mathematician Matthias Kawski of Arizona State University presented Navajo Math Circles on November 28 at the Brazil Delta Conference in Gramado, Rio Grande del Sol. The Delta Conferences are a biannual series of Southern Hemisphere conferences on the teaching and learning of undergraduate mathematics and statistics that began in 1997.

11.7.2017

The New Parkway Theater in Oakland, California, will screen George Csicsery's film, The Thursday Club, on November 7, 2017, at 7 p.m. A look into the lives and stories of Oakland police officers who battled demonstrators and Black Panthers in the 1960s, The Thursday Club is being shown to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Stop-the-Draft-Week demonstrations that rocked Oakland between October 16 and 20, 1967. Union leader Michael Smith, one of the organizers of Stop-the-Draft Week, and retired OPD officers featured in the film will be present for a discussion following the screening, along with producer/director George Csicsery.

This screening is co-sponsored by City of Oakland KTOP TV-10, which co-produced the film. Major funding for production of The Thursday Club was provided by Cal Humanities.

Read about The Thursday Club. Purchase advance tickets here.

11.1.2017

Navajo Math Circles is one of several films being featured on public television in celebration of Native American Heritage Month during November 2017. Watch the film at this PBS website during November. Check local listings for other broadcasts!

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