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10.2010

Child of Giants premieres at the 2010 Mill Valley Film Festival. George Csicsery was Supervising Producer on this feature documentary about Daniel Dixon, son of photographer Dorothea Lange and painter Maynard Dixon.

08.01.2010

Songs Along a Stony Road to screen daily at the exhibition, Between East and West - Folk Art Treasures of Romania, at the Mingei International Museum in San Diego. The exhibition runs from August 1, 2010 to April 3, 2011.

06.06-13.2010

Concordia's Summer Camp in mathematics and computer science, June 6-13, 2010, is showing different films by George Csicsery on each day of its program, with seven documentaries by Csicsery showing during the week-long camp. See http://bit.ly/aTxjIj.

04.01.2010

N is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdös won the audience favorite Ember Judit Award at the First Hungarian Documentary Short & Short Film Festival of Los Angeles, held March 25-31. The festival's only award, named after Hungarian director Judit Ember, was announced by Los Angeles Hungarian Consul Balàzs Bokor on April 1.

See http://bit.ly/b8RWyr and http://bit.ly/djhGeh.

04.2010

With the generous help of mathematicians Fan Chung Graham and Ronald Graham, the full 18 hours of film shot for the documentary, N is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdös, has been transferred to digital format from the original 16mm negative. The material includes the outtakes of interviews filmed between 1988 and 1991 in four countries with Paul Erdös and many other mathematicians who participated in the original project, including Fan Chung Graham, Ron Graham, Béla Bollobás, András Hajnal, Vera Sós, Márta Svéd, Tomasz Luczak, Michal Karonski, Joel Spencer, and Herb Wilf.

03.28.2010

N is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdös will screen at The First Hungarian Documentary & Short Film Festival of Los Angeles, presented by The Consulate General of Hungary in cooperation with the William Fox Hungarian Film Club and the United Hungarian House of Los Angeles. The screening is at 6:30 PM. George Csicsery will participate in a panel discussion moderated by Professor Gabor Kalman and Consul General Balàzs Bokor immediately preceding the film.

United Hungarian House of Los Angeles
1975 W. Washington Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90018
www.magyarhazla.com
March 25-31, 2010
For the festival program, go to http://bit.ly/aV45rU

02.15.2010

Oakbook reprints Cine Source interview with George Csicsery by Doniphan Blair. Read it at http://bit.ly/bem0g5.

02.2010

The February 2010 issue of Cine Source Magazine features an interview with George Csicsery by Doniphan Blair: Csicsery: Math Films, Yes - But So Much More. Read it at http://bit.ly/d1uJBh.

01.04.2010

George Csicsery interview by Michael Fox in SF360. George Csicsery aces "Hard Problems focuses on the making of Hard Problems, George Csicsery's career in math-related documentaries, and the difficulties faced by independents in the changing distribution environment. Read the interview at http://tinyurl.com/yfbql79.

11.5-8.2009

Julia Robinson and Hilbert's Tenth Problem has been selected to screen at the International Scientific Film Festival held in Szolnok, Hungary, November 5-8, 2009. Please visit this site for more information.

10.04.2009

Hard Problems going to television...
A one-hour version of Hard Problems will be distributed to U.S. public broadcasting stations on an exclusive basis by American Public Television (APT) starting October 4, 2009 through 2013. See aptonline.org. Underwriting for the broadcast was made possible with a grant from the National Science Foundation.

09.30.09

The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute presents the Northern California premiere of Hard Problems at a special screening at MSRI's Simons Auditorium in Berkeley, California. The event, combined with a reception before the screening and a panel discussion following the film, features students in the film, and participants in the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) program. See this site for more information.

06.12.2009

Zala Films has completed On Mathematical Grounds, a 16-minute promotional video about the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute. Production on the video, which covers a range of MSRI programs, started in July 2007. It is being released by MSRI on a DVD that combines several extra features, and includes Invitation to Discover, a video George Csicsery made about the institute in 2002.

05.15.2009

Excerpts from Troop 214 will be shown as part of a talk by George Csicsery at American Hungarian Educators' Association 34th Annual Conference to be held at the Bechtel Engineering Center at UC Berkeley May 14-16, 2009. The theme of the 2009 conference is "Hungarians in the New World." 3:45-5:45 at the Bechtel Engineering Center, UC Berkeley.

04.16.2009

N is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdös will screen at Edinburgh's Filmhouse as part of Science Festival 2009. The screening will be followed by audience discussion about mathematicians in the movies. Organized by the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

02.22.2009

The San Francisco Bay Area premiere of Troop 214 will be presented by A Magyar Katolikus Misszió/Hungarian Catholic Mission as part of The Hungarian Cultural Year 2009. Click here for more information.

01.09.2009

An interview with George Csicsery appears in the January 9, 2009 edition of Science Magazine.

01.06.2009

The Joint Policy Board for Mathematics (JPBM) has recognized George Csicsery, an independent filmmaker, with the JPBM Communications Award, recognizing outstanding achievement in communicating about mathematics to nonmathematicians.

11.29.2008

The Hungarian Association, an international organization founded in Cleveland, Ohio in 1951, with current membership around the world, has inducted George Paul Csicsery into the Arpad Academy and awarded him the Arpad Gold Medal.

11.28.2008

The world premiere of the English-subtitled version of Troop 214 will be presented by the Hungarian Association at the 48th Hungarian Congress in Cleveland, Ohio. The Congress program includes a sneak preview of Songs Along a Stony Road during an afternoon workshop featuring George Csicsery.

11.2008

Video Librarian gives Hard Problems a three-star review.

10.31.2008

Julia Robinson and Hilbert's Tenth Problem will screen in Bloomington, Indiana at the NKS Midwest Conference '08.

10.1.2008

Television: The Enchanted Mirror (1981), a 30-minute documentary made by Julene Bair and George Csicsery has been remastered and released on DVD by Whole Earth Films.

08.26.2008

Songs Along A Stony Road screens as part of the National Geographic Society's Tuesdays at Noon series, a free series at National Geographic headquarters in Washington, D.C. screening films supported by the society's All Roads Film initiative. Click here for more information.