Hard Problems - Film Credits

HARD PROBLEMS
The Road to the World's Toughest Math Contest

With

2006 U.S. IMO Team
Zachary Abel
Zarathustra (Zeb) Brady
Taehyeon (Ryan) Ko
Yi Sun
Arnav Tripathy
Alex Zhai

2007 U.S. IMO Team
Sherry Gong
Brian Lawrence
Tedrick Leung
Eric Larson
Arnav Tripathy
Alex Zhai

USAMO and MOP Students
Paul Christiano
Joseph Chu
Peter Diao
Yi Han
Yacov Berchenko-Kogan
Patricia Li
Kevin Modzelewski
Richard Matthew McCutchen

U.S. IMO Team Leaders
Steve Dunbar, Director AMC
Zuming Feng, Team Leader
Alex Saltman, Deputy Team Leader

USAMO Awards Ceremony-Washington, D.C.
James Carlson, Clay Mathematics Institute
Carl Cowen, President, MAA
Tina Straley, MAA

MOP Graders and teachers
Razvan Gelca
Oleg Golberg
Chris Jeuell
Anders Kaseorg
Ian Le
Po-Ru Loh
Thomas Mildorf
Josh Nichols–Barrer
Melanie Matchett Wood
Yan Zhang

Parents and siblings
Alissa Abel
Bruce Abel
Matthew Abel
Terry R. Abel
Galadriel Brady
Amy Chang
K. C. Chang
Moni Choudhury
Dominique Dorian
Nitza T. Freeman
Irina Kogan
Seungae Ko-Kim
Ping Lee
Betty Leung
Orlando Leung
LianGqing Li
David Lin
Yan Lin
Richard McCutchen
Rosemary McCutchen
Tianjing Shen
Lizhong Sun
Ashutosh Tripathy
ChengXiang Zhai

Teachers
Erdem Ersoz
Aliekber GÜrel
Joanne Mason
Nirpal Missan
Harker and Exeter Students
Charlie Fang
Kyu Bok Lee
Marianna Mao
Jason Shu

The students of N. Missan and E. Ersoz
Magnolia Science Academy

And
Elgin Johnston, Chair, AMC Committee

Clothier
Nathen Rutt of Gary Michael’s ClothierS

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Slovenia

Math Olympians
Farzin Barekat
Rostislav Devyatov
Alexander Glazman
Alexey Katyshev
Shenghong Li
Zhiyu Liu
Alexander Magazinov
Timofey Obraztsov
Yang Peng
Pavel Zatitskiy
Yufei Zhao

IMO Officials and Team Leaders
Nazar Agakhanov
Sándor Dobos
Ceri Fiddes
Cheng-Der Fuh
Tjaša Koprivec
Pavel Kozhevnikov
Gangsong Leng
Gordon Lessells
Joseph Pelikán
Nataša Pristovšek
Auðun Sæmundsson
Naoki Sato
Dmitry Tereshin
Victor Ufnarovski
John Webb

IMO Coordinators
Andrej Bauer
Dušan Đjukić
Géza Kós
Pavel Podbrdsky
Svetoslav C. Savchev

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Produced and directed by
George Paul Csicsery

Based on an idea by
Joseph Gallian

Executive Producer
Joseph Gallian

Cinematography

Skip Sweeney
(U.S.A.)
András Tóth-Szöllös
(Slovenia)
Lance Douglas
(Cambridge)

Editor
Tal Skloot

Music by
Todd Boekelheide
Alex Lu

Recorded by
Dave Luke at
Emeryville Recording Company

Production Sound Recordists

Mark Barroso
(Chapel Hill)
Shane Gillette
(Dallas)
John O'Connor
(Exeter)
Jonathan Packer
(Washington, D.C.)
István Perger, Jr.
(Slovenia)
Patty Sharaf
(Los Angeles)
Frank Truncale
(San Jose, Lincoln)

Associate Editor
Andrea Hale

FX Editor & Audio Mixer
E. Larry Oatfield

Dialogue Editor
Ewa Sztompke-Oatfield

Assistant Editors
Jeremiah Grim
Virág Kovács
Zack Stern

Animation and Title Art
Andrea Hale

Production Assistants
Virág Kovács
Alexi Packer
Eva TachÉ-Green

Online Editing Facility
Video Arts/San Francisco

Online Editor
Jesse Spencer

Colorist
Ed Rudolph

Audio Mix
Bison-Bison Studio
Music
Sarn Oliver Violin
David Balakrishnan Violin
Mads Tolling Viola
Mark Summer Cello
Peter Wyrick Cello
Charles Chandler Bass
Alex Lu Piano
Todd Boekelheide Piano

IMO opening ceremony folk group

Tolovaj Mataj

Piano Sonata No.23 in F minor, Op. 57, "Appassionata,"
III. Allegro ma non troppo
by Ludwig van Beethoven
Performed by
Kevin Modzelewski

Mephisto Waltz
by Franz Liszt
Performed by
Arnav Tripathy

Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
by J. S. Bach
Performed by
Arnav Tripathy

IMO closing ceremony folk dance

Tine Rožanc

Žarek Sreče
Performed by
Awsambel “Sotocje”
Slavko Kofol – guitar
Darko Lipuscek – accordion
Rajko Velikowja – bass baritone
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Major funding from

The Penn Oberlander Family Foundation
and
Ellington Management Group, LLC

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Thanks to

Jayne Basques
Donita Bowers
Elizabeth Claassen
Eric Clausen
Sigmund Csicsery
Pam Dickinson
Patrick Eberlein
Misael-Jose Fisico
Kathryn Golden
Ashley James
Rachelle Jensen
Chengye Mao
Alison Miller
Laurence Penn
Wendy Ravech
RuthAnn Royer
Gail Silva
Bradley Stoll
Molly Walker
PATRICK WEADON
DAVID WEISSMAN
Jill Woo
ChengXiang Zhai
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Magnolia Science Academy
Phillips Exeter Academy
EyeMagic Productions
The Harker School
National Cryptologic Museum

A production of Zala Films