10.22.24

Journeys of Black Mathematicians: Forging Resilience has been selected to screen at the 27th United Nations Association Film Festival (UNAFF) as part of its UNAFF in Schools program: 4:20pm at the Eastside College Preparatory School's Eastside Theater, 1041 Myrtle Street, East Palo Alto, California. FREE for students and teachers. See the full festival schedule (pdf).

10.3.24

Troop 214 will be screened at the 2024 Chagrin Documentary Film Festival as part of its annual Hungarian Heritage: Celebration of Culture program. The film screened at the festival a dozen years ago and was invited back for this year's program (23.2mb, pdf).

10.24

Journeys of Black Mathematicians: Forging Resilience is an official selection of the 27th United Nations Association Film Festival and will be screened at the festival in October 2024. The schedule will be announced at their press conference on September 17, 2024.

9.7.24

Join us Saturday, September 7, at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco for a 1 p.m. public screening of Journeys of Black Mathematicians: Forging Resilience, part one of two films produced by Zala Films. Featuring a post-screening discussion with director George Csicsery and University of San Francisco Associate Professor of Mathematics & Statistics, Emille Davie Lawrence. A co-presentation of San Francisco State University Mathematics Department, the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath) and the Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival. Purchase tickets here.

9.6.24

Journeys of Black Mathematicians: Forging Resilience will have its television broadcast premiere as part of Maryland Public Television's HBCU Week on Friday, September 6, at 9 p.m. (EST). Watch a 30-second broadcast promo of our newest film.

8.15.24

A double screening at the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences in Toronto on August 15 featured two Zala Films documentaries, Secrets of the Surface: The Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani and Journeys of Black Mathematicians: Forging Resilience. A panel discussion followed with mathematicians Masoud Khalkhali, Jude Kong and Tina Torkaman and director George Csicsery.

6.13.24

Mathematician Janiah Kyle, one of some 50 mathematicians featured in Journeys of Black Mathematicians: Forging Resilience, was profiled in the June 13, 2024, issue of the weekly CrimeSEEN Examiner News, serving Madison, Gibson, Crockett and Haywood counties in West Tennessee. Reporter Wendy Isom Mercer, who interviewed Kyle, writes: "This documentary is truly a must-see! . . . I hope every elementary, middle, and high school student in West Tennessee can watch it." Kyle notes: "I think seeing documentaries like 'Journeys of Black Mathematicians' would encourage a lot of people to pursue an education and a career in mathematics. I see this happen every time I watch the documentary with someone. They always walk away from it inspired!. . ."

5.5.24

Journeys of Black Mathematicians: Forging Resilience was featured at the American Mathematical Society 2024 Spring Western Sectional Meeting at San Francisco State University. Dr. Hélène Barcelo of the Simons Laufer Mathematical Institute (SLMath) introduced the film.

3.15.24

Writing in Nature about Journeys of Black Mathematicians: Forging Resilience, Noelle Sawyer noted: "Teaching and learning at HBCUs is a point of pride throughout the documentary. These are places where Black maths students are nurtured rather than 'othered'. Many interviewees describe how the representation and support they found at these colleges propelled them into the field."

2.22.24

Following a screening of Journeys of Black Mathematicians: Forging Resilience on February 15 at the University of Washington, student reporter Amiya McLean wrote in her review in The Daily, "Black STEM faculty serve their students in dual capacities: not just as educators, but as role models for what students could be when they grow up. When students see representations of themselves in the fields they want to pursue, their dreams become more tangible."

2.15.24

The University of Washington Department of Mathematics, Department of Applied Mathematics and the Department of Statistics, in partnership with the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath), are hosting a screening of Journeys of Black Mathematicians: Forging Resilience on Thursday, February 15, 6 p.m. The screening will be at UW's Kane Hall Room 110, Seattle, WA. Learn more.

2.7.24

All are welcome to join the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath, formerly MSRI), and Zala Films at the first public premiere of Journeys of Black Mathematicians: Forging Resilience, at the David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, on Wednesday, February 7. Doors open at 6 p.m. with the screening at 6:30 to 7:45 p.m. A Q&A with filmmaker George Csicsery and a dessert reception will follow the screening. RSVPs are requested at https://slmath.ticketleap.com/jbm-film-berkeley/. Admission is free. The film will be shown with English language open captions.

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