GEORGE PAUL CSICSERY, a writer and independent filmmaker since 1968, was born in Regensburg, Germany in 1948 and emigrated to the United States in 1951. He has directed 22 films–dramatic shorts, performance films and documentaries-working in Europe, the Philippines, and the United States. His documentaries include Troop 214 (1997) about exiled Hungarian Scouts in the United States and their return to Hungary, and Communist Pioneers, co-produced with Duna-TV in Budapest, Hungary, and broadcast in November 2000. N is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdös (1993), about the eccentric wandering mathematician, was broadcast on Duna-TV, Hungary (1995), SBS-Australia (1996), the Sundance Channel-USA (1996-98), NHK-Japan (1997), and Noorder Licht, VPRO- Netherlands, January 2001. The film is currently playing on PBS stations by arrangement with American Public Television, (2002-2006). He produced, directed and edited Where the Heart Roams (1987), a feature documentary about romance writers and their fans broadcast on the POV series on PBS (1991) and SBS-Australia. Television: The Enchanted Mirror (1981) received prizes at the Marin, Mill Valley, Palo Alto and USA film festivals. Half-hour 16mm films include Hookers (1975), about a group of women organizing a union of prostitutes in San Francisco; Let's Get It Over With! (1970), about American student reactions to the U.S. invasion of Cambodia; and People of the Current (1971), about the Muslim Tausug people of Luuk township on Jolo island in the Philippines. He has worked on films by Errol Morris (Gates of Heaven), and Barbet Schroeder (Koko). Csicsery is producing several biographical and interview film portraits of mathematicians, including projects on Julia Robinson, Paul Halmos, R. L. Moore, and Ronald Graham. Recent works include Invitation to Discover (2002), made for the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, and porridge pulleys and Pi (2003), a 30-minute piece on mathematicians Hendrik Lenstra and Vaughan Jones which premiered at Teléscience in Montreal, Canada in November 2003. Hungry for Monsters, a feature documentary about a Pennsylvania case of false accusation of incest and child molestation, was completed in 2003, after nine years of production and post-production. It was screened at the Bermuda International Film Festival (March 2004).

Csicsery is the author or co-author of four feature-length screenplays: Ida (1989), Meeting With Darkness (1992), East of Evil (1995), and Alderman's Story (2004), which is set in King Philip's War in New England in 1675.

Csicsery's articles, reviews and interviews have appeared in Salon.com, Amerasia Journal, Asia Times, Heterodoxy, Film Quarterly, California Magazine, Savvy, the San Jose Mercury-News, the San Francisco Chronicle, the East Bay Express, the Oakland Tribune, The Japan Times, The Forward, Lufthansa Bordbuch, Release Print, and many other publications. His articles and interviews have been reprinted in several anthologies, including Conversations with Ishmael Reed, University of Mississippi Press (1995); Without Force or Lies, edited by William Brinton, Mercury House (1990); Burden of Dreams by Les Blank & James Bogan, North Atlantic Books (1984). He has a BA in Comparative Religions from UC Berkeley (1969), and an MFA in Film Production from San Francisco State University (1972).

Csicsery has taught film editing at Film Arts Foundation in San Francisco (1982-1997), and general cinema courses to undergraduates at San Francisco State University (1996) and at UC Davis (1998). He lives in Oakland, California.