Latest In⨍ormation
4.5.2022
Cinema screening at the Garden Theater in Princeton April 7, 2022 at 7:30 pm!
https://www.princetongardentheatre.org/films/bit-player
6.14.2021
The Bit Player at the AFI Silver Virtual Screening Room June 15-30, 2021
https://bit.ly/3cJ9Pyq Part of the Sloan Foundation Science on Screen program with introduction by filmmaker Mark Levinson and Dr. Ophir Frieder, Professor, Department of Computer Science, Georgetown University
4.12.2021
National Math Festival Opening Day Screening and Discussion 4/16/21 5 pm ET
Free registration for the entire festival including The Bit Player screening.
2.8.2021
The incredible mind of Claude Shannon on The Good Life podcast https://apple.co/3jyn9b9
Sean Murray discusses the work of Shannon with director Mark Levinson and author Jimmy Soni (A Mind at Play)
10.14.2020
Screening and Q&A with director of The Bit Player Thursday Oct 15 sponsored by the IEEE Foundation
Screening at 11 am EST, Q&A at 1 pm EST. Register here: http://bit.ly/IEEEFSpotlightBitPlayer
7.23.2020
THE BIT PLAYER is online on AmazonPrime!
Online premiere on Amazon for rent or purchase or free with Prime membership. The Bit Player
6.22.2020
Special online screening as part of the International Symposium of Information Theory June 26-28!
Screening to be followed by a panel discussion with Shannon colleague Robert Gallager, Shannon Awardee Dave Tse, film director/writer/producer Mark Levinson, moderated by Urbashi Mitra. Screening this weekend until Sunday evening on Vimeo at https://tinyurl.com/bitplayer PW: Shannon-ISIT
6.4.2020
Radio interview with director Mark Levinson
Live radio interview Friday 5/5 morning 8:30 am PST with director Mark Levinson about #TheBitPlayer. Stream live on jeffexchange.org or find a station at ijpr.org/find-jpr-station. Participate in the live program by calling 800-838-3760 or emailing JX@jeffnet.org.
6.3.2020
Ashland Independent Film Festival Virtual Screening June 7, 2020!
For one day only, stream The Bit Player as part of AIFF: https://filmfestivalflix.com/festival/aiff/film/the-bit-player/
2.27.2020
Claude Shannon comes to Cleveland!
Cleveland premiere of The Bit Player this Sunday March 1 at the Cleveland Institute of Arts Cinematheque https://www.clevelandartsevents.com/event/the-bit-player/
2.23.2020
Special Boulder CO Event Friday Feb 28, 2020
Director Mark Levinson at CO premiere as part of Nest Sievers daVinci series http://nestcuboulder.org/davinci/ https://allevents.in/boulder/the-bit-player/200019183891329
2.20.2020
Texas Premiere February 22, 2020!
Screening at 14 Pews in Houston this Saturday at 7 pm https://14pews.org/calendar.asp?pageid=15&calid=2136
2.6.2020
AAAS annual meeting in Seattle
The Bit Player will be featured in a screening at AAAS Feb 14, 2020 at 10 am https://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2020/meetingapp.cgi/Session/25305
1.2.2020
January 12, 2020 Screening at the Enzian Theater in partnership with the Orlando Science Center
12.1.2019
Interview in Finanz und Wirtschaft
10.28.2019
Great line-up for panel at free special Boston Screening for LIDS 80th Anniversary Nov 3 at 2 pm!
10.26.2019
THE BIT PLAYER Auditorium du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle Paris Oct 28
https://goo.gl/alerts/ixeJg
10.24.2019
Screening in Chicago area Nov 1,2,3 as part of Northwestern's ETOPiA Science on Screen Series
10.20.2019
Eastern European premiere Oct 25, 2019 at the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
10.16.2019
The Bit Player selected to be screened at the annual AAAS meeting in Seattle Feb 14, 2020
10.9.2019
Union College Screening Thursday Oct 10, 2019
Screening at 6:30 pm in the Reamer Campus Center Auditorium open to all!
9.23.2019
The Bit Player comes to Boston on Nov 3, 2019!
Free Special Event Screening at MIT as part of LIDS Anniversary Celebration https://lids.mit.edu/special-screening-bit-player
9.8.2019
Alamo Drafthouse screening in S.F. on Sept 17!
Special screening with food, drinks, gifts, raffle and Q&A with director Mark Levinson and Jimmy Soni, co-author of the book A Mind At Play. http://www.cvent.com/d/ryqgqn
7.19.2019
Physics Today Review of The Bit Player
7.2.2019
CineGlobe Screening at CERN, Geneva
Screening at CERN, the site of the Large Hadron Collider July 4, 2019 http://cineglobe.ch/sessions/the-bit-player/
7.2.2019
World Conference of Science Journalists in Lausanne
Special open air screening tonight, July 2, at the Musée d'Elysée in Lausanne.
6.19.2019
Computer History Museum Screening August 2, 2019
The Bit Player will screen at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View CA.
5.22.2019
World Premiere at the World Science Festival
The Bit Player had its world premiere at the World Science Festival on May 29, 2019. The screening at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York was followed by a conversation discussing Claude Shannon’s legacy and the impact of his work with MIT professor Robert Gallager, Columbia University professor Jeannette Wing and director Mark A. Levinson.