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''The Bit Player'' is a 2019
''The Bit Player'' is a 2019 documentary film
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created to celebrate the 2016 centenary of the birth of Claude Shannon
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, the "father of information theory
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". The film was produced and directed by Mark Levinson, in cooperation with the IEEE Information Theory Society
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and the IEEE Foundation
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.
The film premiered at the World Science Festival
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in New York City on May 29, and was screened for a large audience at the IEEE Information Theory Society
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's meeting in Vail, Colorado
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, on June 19.
A review in ''Physics Today
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'' calls it "not quite a documentary" and "a delightful new film". The film was named "best in show" in ''Realscreen
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s MIPTV
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Picks 2019.
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