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Winner of Audience Award and Jury Award for Best LA Feature at the 2014 New Orleans Film Festival

Winner of Best Documentary of 2015 from The Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.

"A riveting documentary about heroism, controversy and progress told through the story of one of the most important institutions in American medical history." – Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT

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"Alex John Glustrom’s documentary Big Charity provides an outline of one of the great boondoggles of recent American politics, a scheme that wasted mountains of federal money."

–The Daily Beast

"How could one filmmaker, who had never done a documentary before, have the ability to compile a 60-minute feature not only headlining New Orleans Film Festival, but also taking the independent movie circuit by storm?"

–Louisiana Film & Video Magazine

"A stark pull-no-punches look at the shameful political maneuvering and blatant opportunism that played out in the wake Hurricane Katrina – and that all but ensured the death of an iconic and revered New Orleans institution."

–NOLA.COM Top 10 Hollywood South Films

"National audiences could benefit from the exposure to the hospital’s history. As a document of a people and building, the film offers lessons about health care, government and community."

–Louisiana Cultural Vistas Magazine

"Wringing as much emotion, nostalgia, and community outrage into to a single film as possible, Big Charity documents the still highly controversial and lamented closing of New Orleans’ landmark hospital

–Examiner

"On behalf of all who were born, treated, trained and even died at Charity -- thanks for making this unusual film occur and the miracle of truth happen."

–The White Cap

"This is the big story, and a compelling one it is, but where Big Charity succeeds as a film is in telling the small stories along the way. The good stories highlighting the strength of people."

"Though it begins and ends as a sentimental journey through the Charity Hospital system, director Alexander John Glustrom's documentary Big Charity ultimately emerges as a work of advocacy against disaster capitalism."

– Pass it to the left –Gambit

"the final verdict on Big Charity from the audience was clear -- a standing ovation"

– Nola Vie

"One of the most anticipated films at this year's New Orleans Film Festival"

–WWOZ

"The movie chronicles the hospital’s evolution from a small facility once run by nuns into a public institution that was once the second-largest hospital in the country. It features emotional interviews with staff who fought to care for patients stranded in the hospital after the storm. The film also gives a rare look inside the now-moldered building."

–The New Wave

"If everyone could learn a little bit from the compassion and dedication that Charity’s staff exhibited everyday, and apply that to their own daily lives, our society would see a major change for the better."

–You've been Noted

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DIRECTED, EDITED & PRODUCED BY ALEX GLUSTROM
PRODUCED BY BEN JOHNSON & CATHERINE RIERSON