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2.7.25
A screening and panel discussion of Journeys of Black Mathematicians: Creating Pathways is planned on February 7, 9 a.m. to 12:45 p.m., at Arizona State University, Tempe. The student event will open with a breakfast reception and coffee break, followed by the screening and panel discussion featuring director George Csicsery; film participants Sylvia Bozeman, Johnny Houston, Emille Davie Lawrence and Dawn Lott; and moderator Donatella Danielli. Event hosts include the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and SoMSS Charter Initiatives Committee. Find event details and a link to register here.
2.5.25
The Loyola Marymount University Seaver College of Science and Engineering's Math Department is hosting a free public screening of Journeys of Black Mathematicians: Creating Pathways on February 5.25, from 6 to 8 p.m., in FEA 120. A panel discussion and reception will follow. Please RSVP if you plan to attend.
2.2.25
Both films in the Journeys of Black Mathematicians series, Forging Resilience and Creating Pathways, will be broadcast on public television in the US via APT starting in February 2025. Check APTonline or the Journeys of Black Mathematicians airdates page to find out where to watch in your area.
1.11.25
The Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath) and the National Association of Mathematicians (NAM) have invited JMM 2025 registrants and the public to join them in Seattle on January 11.25, at 11:30 a.m., for the world premiere of the second of two documentary films produced by Zala Films as part of the Journeys of Black Mathematicians documentary series. Creating Pathways follows Forging Resilience, the first film in the series, and introduces new characters, highlighting the lives of Black pioneers in mathematics from the 20th century. The film focuses on the stories of mathematicians who attended predominantly White institutions, and surveys a range of attitudes around identity and scholars' achievements in a variety of fields.
12.12.2024
Journeys of Black Mathematicians: Forging Resilience was nominated for a Buzzie Award at the 2024 World Congress of Science & Factual Producers, held in Marrakech, Morocco, in the Most Innovative Factual Program category.
11.24.2024
Journeys of Black Mathematicians: Forging Resilience screens at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation Film Festival Mathematics - Computer Science on November 24 at the Karlstorkino Heidelberg in Germany at 7:30 p.m. (1:30 pm EST, 10:30 a.m. PST). Our film is one of eight documentaries selected that "throw a spotlight either on the life and work of outstanding scientists or on social discourse surrounding current issues rooted in mathematics and computer science." A Q&A will follow featuring film participants.
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.



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documentaries


Journeys of Black Mathematicians

Secrets of the Surface
The Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani

Counting from Infinity
Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture

License to Tell
(in production)

Burrocracy
(in production)

Erdős 100 Plus

Navajo Math Circles

Child of Giants
My Journey with Maynard Dixon and Dorothea Lange

Gazing Into the Past
The Unbounded Vision of James Cahill
(a collaboration with Skip Sweeney; in production)

Something New
Every Day

The Math & Magic of Ron Graham

People of the Current



Angel of Mercy
(in production; est. completion, 2026)


Taking the Long View
The Life of Shiing-shen Chern

Erdős 100


Hard Problems
The Road to the World's
Toughest Math Contest


To Prove and Conjecture
Excerpts from Three Lectures
by Paul Erdős

Where the Heart Roams


N is a Number
A Portrait of Paul Erdős


Troop 214
214-es Csapat


I Want to Be a Mathematician
A Conversation with Paul Halmos

Songs Along a Stony Road


The Right Spin


Julia Robinson
and Hilbert's Tenth Problem


Hungry for Monsters
A Tale from a New Age Witch Hunt


Television
The Enchanted Mirror


The Thursday Club


porridge pulleys and Pi
Two Mathematical Journeys



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