Mark Birnbaum & Jim Schermbeck

Mark Birnbaum & Jim Schermbeck

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Mark Birnbaum, a native Texan, is a veteran producer, director, writer and cameraman. Birnbaum is the director/producer of the critically acclaimed documentary Larry v. Lockney, which chronicles Texas farmer Larry Tannahill’s fight against mandatory drug testing in his son’s school. The film made its broadcast premiere on the PBS program P.O.V. In addition to The Big Buy, Birnbaum is currently working on Wood Pushers, a documentary that follows the championship run of a collegiate chess team. He has also made films about salsa dancing, competitive sailing, Vatican II, female Ecuadorian garbage sorters, race, Nicaraguan politics, and many other issues.

Jim Schermbeck is relatively new to filmmaking. A native Texan and veteran environmental organizer, Schermbeck worked with two community groups to find and classify Superfund toxic waste sites. After moving to Lubbock, his longtime interest and passion for filmmaking led him to Mark Birnbaum, and together they made the critically acclaimed documentary Larry v. Lockney. Schermbeck, who has a wife and a six year old daughter, has spent the last three years working on the self-financed project The Big Buy along with Birnbaum.

Blog Entries by Mark Birnbaum & Jim Schermbeck

The Big Buy Shows Why Big Money Is Our Biggest Obstacle

Posted June 27, 2006 | 02:54 PM (EST)

Howdy once again from Texas, where of course, everything is bigger, especially our political scandals.

Mark and I want to thank all the folks here at the Huffington Blog who've been so supportive in getting the word out about our film, The Big Buy: Tom DeLay's Stolen Congress.

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Tom DeLay Targets Us, Our Film, and His Supporters' Wallets

Posted March 31, 2006 | 07:10 PM (EST)

All I can say is the guy must be desperate for money.

Jim "Hollywood" Schermbeck here. And according to Houston Congressman Tom Delay, my co-producer Mark "Buddy" Birnbaum and I are right up there with Babs Streisand as a threat to the American Way of Life.

Sitting in my home...

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Yelling "Movie" in a Crowded Political Theater

Posted March 7, 2006 | 02:16 PM (EST)

So the question is, how do you prepare yourself to walk into a whirring propeller?

Today in Sugar Land, Texas, Mark Birnbaum and I will announce a national distribution deal that will see a film we've labored on for three years on our own dime not only show up in...

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