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From Nicaragua dancing with socialism to Tom DeLay dancing with the stars, Mark Birnbaum's documentary films have probed, celebrated and exposed people to places and personalities from all over the globe.
Every day in Cuenca, Ecuador, about fifty women sort the contents of the municipal trash dump. In order to create a better life for their children, and a safer work place for community of recyclers amidst a culture that thinks, if you work in trash, you are trash.
Artist and impresario Frank Campagna laments the destruction of an artistic landmark in Dallas historic Deep Ellum neighborhood.
Gatewood Galbraith is running for Governor of Kentucky. In a state that leads a national effort to legalize industrial hemp, Gatewood argues for a more rational approach to its country-cousin, marijuana.
In northern Guatemala,
the village of Acul
found itself at ground zero
in the Guatemalan Army's campaign of
mass execution, and murder with impunity.
The Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Team
has come to Acul to help find out once and for all
what happened there, on a sunny morning in 1981.
A beautiful family.
A fine house.
Educated, successful people.
Some lived, most were murdered.
From Dresden, Berlin and Paris and Prague, to Buchenwald, Auschwitz and Terezinstadt, two sons of survivors journey through Europe searching for traces of a lost family they never knew.
"The Big Buy presents its evidence clearly and with a welcome sense of humor."
-- New York Times
"Mark Birnbaum and Jim Schermbeck methodically assemble a damning case against U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay"
-- Daily Variety
"The Big Buy is more feisty and fun than a drunken barbecue in Beaumont.
-- Tallahassee Democrat
"An absorbing account that should appeal to anyone concerned with the future
of democracy."
-- Peter Martin, Cinematical
"Surprisingly inspiring, as it points to the inevitable reinvention of an industry in need of new life."
-- Robert Wilonsky, Dallas Observer
