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3.26.2013Today would be Paul Erdös's 100th birthday. With newspapers all over the world honoring Erdös and his mathematical problems in today's editions, the Simons Foundation has featured a short clip of excerpts from N is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdös at its website. 3.20.2013Science Lives is a series of extended interviews with some of the giants of 20th-century mathematics and science. A short highlights film created by filmmaker George Csicsery to introduce the Science Lives project to attendees of the 2013 Joint Mathematics Meetings held in San Diego has been posted on the Web at the Science Lives site. This collection, organized in collaboration with Hugo Rossi of the University of Utah, provides an opportunity to watch these great men and women discuss their lives and their thinking about science and our world. 3.20.2013The second day of a four-film program of mathematics documentaries by George Csicsery at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco features N IS A NUMBER: A Portrait of Paul Erdos at 6 PM and 9:30 PM, and HARD PROBLEMS: The Road to the World’s Toughest Math Contest, showing at 8 PM. Visit the Roxie website for details or call 415.863.1087. 3.18.2013The Roxie Theater opens a four-film program of mathematics documentaries by George Csicsery with the San Francisco Bay Area premiere of TAKING THE LONG VIEW: The Life of Shiing-shen Chern, screening at 7:45 PM. There will also be two screenings of JULIA ROBINSON AND HILBERT’S TENTH PROBLEM, at 6:30 PM and 9 PM. Visit the Roxie website for details or call 415.863.1087. 3.4.2013"Seeing Further with Nelson Blachman," a five-minute production by Zala Films about mathematician Nelson Blachman is on YouTube and was published in the NYT Wordplay blog. 2.23.2013 – 3.3.201319th Annual Sedona International Film Festival screens CHILD OF GIANTS: My Journey with Maynard Dixon and Dorothea Lange on Monday, February 25, at 9 AM, and Friday, March 1, at 3:15 PM, at the Harkins Theatres, 2081 W. State Route 89A, West Sedona, ph 928-282-1177. More details here. 2.2.2013CHILD OF GIANTS screens as part of the inaugural weekend of the new Marin History Museum at 1125 B Street, San Rafael, CA 94901, ph 415-454-8538. The MHM is also currently running a terrific exhibit of photographs entitled “Dorothea Lange at Steep Ravine.” There will be a reception at 5:00 p.m., followed by the film screening at 6:00 p.m. Director Tom Ropelewski will be present for a Q&A afterward. Tickets are on sale at the door, with suggested donations of $5 for MHM members and $10 for the public. 1.10.2013Taking the Long View: The Life of Shiing-shen Chern will be screened at the 2013 Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego. 1.10.2013A 5-minute trailer for the Simons Foundation Science Lives series of science biography videos will be screened at the 2013 Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego in conjunction with a screening of Taking the Long View: The Life of Shiing-shen Chern. 11.24.2012Songs Along a Stony Road will be screened at the 2nd International Folk Music Film Festival "Music for Life, Music for Survival". 9.24.2012CHILD OF GIANTS: My Journey with Maynard Dixon and Dorothea Lange, a film by Tom Ropelewski co-produced by George Csicsery, will be showing with PIRKLE JONES: Seven Decades Photographed, a film by Jane Reed, at the Roxie Theater, 3117 16th Street, San Francisco, on September 24, 2012, at 7:30 PM. See the Roxie program. 9.14.2012N is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdös will be screened at the first Science Park Amsterdam Film Festival (SPAFF) In Amsterdam, Netherlands on September 14, 2012. 7.13.2012The PBS series POV is streaming George Csicsery's feature documentary Where the Heart Roams online from the POV website for a year through July 13, 2013. The POV site also features a July 2012 interview with George Csicsery about the making of Where the Heart Roams. The 1987 film about romance writers and their fans on a rail journey across the United States was first broadcast on POV in 1991. 7.12.2012Zala Films announces the San Francisco Bay Area premiere screening of Songs Along a Stony Road at the Roxie Theater, 3117 16th Street, San Francisco, on Thursday, July 12, 2012, at 7 PM and 9 PM. The film is showing with Sprout Wings and Fly, a film by Les Blank. Filmmakers George Csicsery and Les Blank will be present. See the Roxie program. 7.6.2012The July-August 2012 issue of Video Librarian gives Songs Along a Stony Road a three-star review. 7.6.2012Zala Films has just completed production of the trailer for Don Lattin's book "Distilled Spirits", to be published by UC Press in October 2012. 7.1.2012Zala Films is pleased to announce a DVD release of the haunting 1977 short film Tealia directed by George Csicsery and produced by Ellen Kutten. The ten-minute ballet by John McFall featuring Betsy Erickson and Vane Vest of the San Francisco Ballet was filmed in 16mm, and won numerous awards at festivals in 1977 and 1978. 6.26.2012The San Francisco Classical Voice gives its review of Songs Along a Stony Road in a review title Another Zoltán Explores the Roots of Music. 5.3.2012The May 2012 issue of Cine Source, billed as the Oakland issue, features an article about George Csicsery and the last two years at Zala Films. 5.1.2012The May-June 2012 issue of Video Librarian has a review of Taking the Long View: The Life of Shiing-Shen Chern, giving the film three stars. 4.30.2012Taking the Long View was screened as a Mathematics Department Special Event at the University of California, San Diego 4.29.2012Songs Along a Stony Road was screened at the Hungarian House in San Diego. 3.31.2012 – 8.19.2012Excerpted sequences from George Csicsery's 1970 film "Let's Get it Over With!" will be featured as part of the Oakland Museum of California exhibit "All Of Us Or None: Social Justice Posters of the San Francisco Bay Area", which opens on March 31. The sequences were filmed during May 1970 at the poster workshops at UC Berkeley's Wurster Hall. The clips are looped and will run continuously whenever the exhibition is open. For more information, see: Oakland Museum of California. 3.2012In March of 2011, Zala Films began producing short video segments for the Gathering For Gardner Foundation (G4G), a non-profit corporation that works to honor the achievements of Martin Gardner by promoting the lucid exposition of new and accessible ideas in recreational mathematics, magic, puzzles, and philosophy. The first Web-destined series of 19 video sequences featuring Scott Kim and Karl Schaffer have been posted by G4G at their YouTube channel. These sequences feature Scott and Karl talking about Gardner's influence on their lives and thinking, and show them creating geometrical shapes with their hands, and with string. For more information, see: Gathering For Gardner (G4G) 3.1.2012Zala Films is proud to be associated with the production of the Simons Foundation's Science Lives video project presenting long-form, detailed interviews with prominent mathematicians and scientists for the Web. The Science Lives project showcases a series of extended interviews with some of the giants of twentieth century mathematics and science. The collection, organized in collaboration with Hugo Rossi of the University of Utah, provides scientists, historians and students the opportunity to see and hear these great men and women discuss their lives and their thinking about their science and our world. Zala Films has taped fifteen interviews for the project since October 2010, with several more scheduled for filming in 2012. The first three interviews posted on https://simonsfoundation.org/mps-science-lives are with mathematicians Friedrich Hirzebruch, Yuri Manin, and Nobel Prize winning physicist C. N. Yang. Explore Science Lives here. 11.17.2011Taking the Long View to screen in Paris at IHES as part of the Centenaire de Shiing-shen Chern 10.02.2011Julia Robinson and Hilbert's Tenth Problem will start appearing on public television stations via syndication by American Public Television (APT) www.aptonline.org. Preparation of the broadcast version of the film was made possible with support from the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) and a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Public television stations will be able to schedule broadcasts through September 2014. See: http://bit.ly/qIn4sv. 09.22.2011 & 09.25.2011Songs Along a Stony Road, a film by George Csicsery and Chris Teerink, will have its European premiere at the Netherlands Film Festival, running September 21-30 in Utrecht. Screenings are Thursday, September 22, at 6:00 PM (donderdag 22-09-2011 om 18:00 uur in Hoogt 2) and Sunday, September 25, at 10:15 PM (zondag 25-09-2011 om 22:15 uur in Hoogt 2). For more information, visit the festival website after September 7, or contact Chris Teerink. See information about the film in English and Hungarian at www.zalafilms.com. 09.16.2011Child of Giants: My Journey with Maynard Dixon and Dorothea Lange will screen at the Oakland Museum of California on Friday, September 16, at 7 PM. This screening is free. http://bit.ly/q4hOQa 09.04.2011The Glen Rose Neo-Relix Film Festival in Glen Rose, Texas named Child of Giants: My Journey with Maynard Dixon and Dorothea Lange as BEST FEATURE FILM this Labor Day weekend. 07.25.2011Zala Films is pleased to announce publication of Almost a Soldier: The 1945 Diary of a Hungarian Cadet by Sigmund Csicsery. The paperback is the first book to be published by Zala Films. This English translation by George Csicsery from the Hungarian original features original hand-drawn illustrations by the author. ISBN 978-09-7245-888-7 See: www.almostasoldier.com 07.24.2011Child of Giants: My Journey with Maynard Dixon and Dorothea Lange will have its television broadcast premiere on KQED, San Francisco’s PBS affiliate, as part of its TRULY CA documentary series on Sunday, July 24 at 5:30 PM, with special Encore presentations on Monday, July 25 at 8:00 PM and Tuesday, July 26 at 2:00 AM. See www.kqed.org. For more information about Child of Giants, see www.childofgiants.com 04.17.2011Songs Along a Stony Road, a feature documentary about Transylvania's folk musicians filmed between 1999 and 2006, made with Dutch filmmaker Chris Teerink, will have its world premiere screening at the Chicago International Movies & Music Festival on April 17, 2011. The film will screen at the Chicago Cultural Center, Claudia Cassidy Theater, 78 E. Washington Street on Sunday, April 17, 2011 at 12 noon. George Csicsery will be present to answer questions. Click here for more information.. 03.02.2011N is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdös is now available for
streaming at FORA.tvFilms. It is one of the first documentaries offered as part of FORA.tv's new service.
02.25.2011The Geometry of Eero Saarinen's Gateway Arch, a 46-minute video of mathematician Robert Osserman's October 2010 presentation at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, was completed by Zala Films in February 2011. The video in which Osserman discusses Saarinen's soaring architectural sculpture masterpiece in St. Louis, Missouri, is now live at the Simons Foundation web site.
11.29.2010George Csicsery will show two recent short films, Taking the Long View and On Mathematical Grounds, and discuss the process of making documentaries about mathematicians at the Berliner Colloquium für Wissenschaftliche Visualisierung (Berlin Colloquium on Scientific Visualization). http://bit.ly/fukcV9
11.15.2010Whole Earth Films releases a newly mastered DVD of "Hookers" a 1975 documentary made by George Csicsery and Max Scherr about a labor union for prostitutes in San Francisco. Click here for more information. 10.25-26.2010George Csicsery and Zala Films begin production of two mathematical oral histories, taping interviews with Yuri Manin in Evanston, Illinois, and with Paul Sally at the University of Chicago. Material from these interviews is destined for Web-based distribution as part of an initiative of the Simons Foundation. 10.14.2010The death of Constance Reid is a loss to the mathematics community, and especially to those who worked closely with her. Constance was one of the greats of mathematical biographies. Her passionate participation and perseverance over nine years of production made it possible to complete Julia Robinson and Hilbert's Tenth Problem (2008), a film about her sister, and her involvement in the solution of an important Hilbert problem. http://nyti.ms/deAoVW 10.14.2010Troop 214 (214-es Csapat) screens Thursday, October 14, from 9 to 10 p.m., as part of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) Convention, being held October 14 to 16 at the Hotel Albuquerque in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Filmmaker George Csicsery will participate in a panel discussion, Trends in 20th Century Hungarian Film and Literature, from 8:30 to 10 a.m., October 14. 10.2010Child 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. 09.2010Mud Bricks at the Top of the World, a 10-minute documentary produced by Class Productions, completed post-production at Zala Films. The film is about an innovative architectural project of BASIC Initiative organized by Sergio Palleroni. Director Steve Kovács filmed at the Druk White Lotus School at Shey, Ladakh, India in July 2010. The film was edited by Tal Skloot. George Csicsery was associate producer.
Mud Bricks at the Top of the World premieres at HRH The Prince of Wales' Start initiative's 'A Garden Party to Make a Difference' at Marlborough house, London, September 8-19, 2010.
A new 53-minute Hungarian version of Troop 214/214-es Csapat will screen on HÍR TV in Hungary on its Vetitö program on Sunday, August 22, at 10:06 p.m., with repeats on Thursday, August 26, at 3:06 p.m. and Saturday, August 28, at 11:06 p.m.
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Taking the Long View: The Life of Shiing-shen Chern will have its premiere screening during the presentation of the first-ever Chern prize at the International Congress of Mathematics (ICM) in Hyderabad, India on August 19, 2010. See www.icm2010.org.in/imu-prizes.
Zala Films was commissioned to produce the 16-minute commemorative film about mathematician S. S. Chern by the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI). It is the first of two films in production about Chern. A longer full biographical film is scheduled for completion and DVD release in September 2011. Taking the Long View will soon be available for viewing at www.takingthelongviewfilm.com.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Oakbook reprints Cine Source interview with George Csicsery by Doniphan Blair. Read it at http://bit.ly/bem0g5.
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.
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.
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.
Hard Problems going to television...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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An interview with George Csicsery appears in the January 9, 2009 edition of Science Magazine.
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.
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.
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.
Video Librarian gives Hard Problems a three-star review.
Julia Robinson and Hilbert's Tenth Problem will screen in Bloomington, Indiana at the NKS Midwest Conference '08.
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.
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. Julia Robinson and Hilbert's Tenth Problem reviewed in Video Librarian. Julia Robinson and Hilbert's Tenth Problem screening in Athens, Greece. porridge pulleys and Pi screens at MathFilm Festival 2008. Now available: Deluxe edition of Hard Problems: The Road to the World's Toughest Math Contest. Notices of the American Mathematical Society features a review of Julia Robinson and Hilbert's Tenth Problem. Julia Robinson and Hilbert's Tenth Problem screening at UC Berkeley. The March 2008 issue of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society features a series of stills from Julia Robinson and Hilbert's Tenth Problem. The American Mathematical Society and Clay Mathematics Institute present the world premiere screening of Julia Robinson and Hilbert's Tenth Problem. World Premiere of Hard Problems: The Road to the World's Toughest Math Contest. The American Mathematical Society and Clay Mathematics Institute present the world premiere screening of Julia Robinson and Hilbert's Tenth Problem. Film Arts Foundation screens N is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdös as one of Three Benefit Events. Roxie Cinema in San Francisco screens The Thursday Club. Oakland Tribune Review of The Thursday Club. Screening of The Thursday Club at the Oakland Museum of California. N is a Number broadcast on Zomergasten. U.S.A. Mathematical Olympiad: Filming Hard Problems. VHS Liquidation Sale! A select group of titles from Zala Films are available on VHS cassettes at $6 each for a limited time. Facets Multimedia, Inc. to release the DVD of N is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdös. A rough cut of Julia Robinson and Hilbert's Tenth Problem will be featured at a sneak preview at the Urania kino in Berlin, Germany, as part of the MathFilm Festival 2007. View trailer. The Boston Museum of Science will screen scenes from Julia Robinson and Hilbert's Tenth Problem. Turner Classic Movies reviews DVD release of
Where the Heart Roams. Read review on FilmThreat.com. Facets Multimedia, Inc. releases a DVD of Where the Heart Roams. Facets Multimedia, Inc. releases new DVD edition of Hungry for Monsters. The
Laney Tower has published a review of The Thursday Club. Movie Habit has published
a review by John Adams of Hungry For Monsters. Facets Multimedia, Inc. releases The Thursday Club DVD edition. Documentary Channel of New Zealand has acquired a two-year license to broadcast
Hungry for Monsters in New Zealand. Facets Multimedia, Inc. begins distribution of three documentaries
by George Csicsery. A DVD edition of porridge
pulleys and Pi has been published and is available from the
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute. George Csicsery addresses ScriptBiz at the Rhode Island
International Film Festival. George Csicsery has completed
principal cinematography on Hard Problems. Teachers' TV has acquired a
license to broadcast Hungry
for Monsters in the United Kingdom. |
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