Robert Greenwald

Birthday: 28 August 1945, New York City, New York, USA

Robert Greenwald, founder and president of Brave New Films (BNF), is an award-winning television, feature film and documentary filmmaker whose most recent feature is Making a Killing: Guns, Greed, and the NRA. Greenwald turned to documentary filmmaking in 2002, inspired by pervasive voter rights abuses in the 2000 U.S. presidential election. He found audiences eager for substantive investigations of social issues, told through personal stories, and chose to bypass the usual gatekeepers by devising creative means of distribution, first through house parties, and ultimately through the Internet and social media. The documentaries produced by Brave New Films have been streamed across all seven continents and have been viewed over 70 million times and counting.At BNF, Greenwald has produced and directed documentaries and short videos, uncovering corporate abuse, the military industrial complex, the unbridled political influence of billionaires, and the unfair and unbalanced tactics of Fox News. His full-length features include; Uncovered: The War on Iraq (2004); Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism (2004); Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (2005); Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers (2006); Rethink Afghanistan (2009); Koch Brothers Exposed (2012); and War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State (2013) and Unmanned: America's Drone Wars (2013).Before launching Brave New Films, Robert produced and/or directed more than 50 TV movies and miniseries. including The Burning Bed (1984), starring Farrah Fawcett and A Woman of Independent Means (1995), starring Sally Field; as well as the feature films Steal This Movie (2000), starring Vincent D'Onofrio as 60's radical Abbie Hoffman, and Breaking Up (1997), starring Russell Crowe and Salma Hayek.Greenwald is the recipient of many awards and accolades, including a Maggie Award from the Planned Parenthood Federation, the Peacemaker Award from the Physicians for Social Responsibility, the City of Justice award from LAANE, the 2007 Norman Felton and Denise Aubuchon Humanitarian Award, and Liberty Hill Foundation's Upton Sinclair Award. Greenwald was honored in 2013 by the ACLU Foundation of Southern California for his activism and also received the 2001 Peabody Award and the 2002 American Film Institute Producer of the Year award. His films have garnered 25 Emmy nominations. Show less «

A lot of progressives really believe that if we can turn out one more white paper with bullet points...Show more »

A lot of progressives really believe that if we can turn out one more white paper with bullet points about how to fix Problem X, we can fix it. But that's not primarily the way you reach people or move them. You reach the heart first. Show less «

Corporate conglomerates run without regulation do not work in the service of society, and run reckle...Show more »

Corporate conglomerates run without regulation do not work in the service of society, and run reckless and unchecked whenever possible. Show less «

The Occupy movement has drawn attention to how too many in the 1 percent get to play by their own ru...Show more »

The Occupy movement has drawn attention to how too many in the 1 percent get to play by their own rules while exploiting the 99 percent. Show less «

Ideology has consequences.

Those are just some of the people whom we interviewed in the documentary, but that should provide yo...Show more »

Those are just some of the people whom we interviewed in the documentary, but that should provide you with a good sense of the credibility of the individuals who bolster the case that this administration lied us into a war. Show less «

Even though the Koch brothers' businesses put 4.4 million people at risk with pollutants, the Kochs ...Show more »

Even though the Koch brothers' businesses put 4.4 million people at risk with pollutants, the Kochs have poured millions into lobbyists' coffers and political contributions to ensure their bottom line stays unchanged by the most basic safety precaution. Show less «

We know that BP cuts safety corners, takes risks, and is unconcerned about anything other than their...Show more »

We know that BP cuts safety corners, takes risks, and is unconcerned about anything other than their own profit. Show less «

If people take the film and screen it whenever possible for their social and professional networks, ...Show more »

If people take the film and screen it whenever possible for their social and professional networks, we can continue to make a difference. It is one more element we have to use in the ongoing effort to take back our country. Show less «

Our goal isn't to close Wal-Mart down. It is to make it a better, more humane company toward its emp...Show more »

Our goal isn't to close Wal-Mart down. It is to make it a better, more humane company toward its employees and the communities it is in. Show less «

The disaster in the Gulf was no accident. It was the result of years of oil money buying off politic...Show more »

The disaster in the Gulf was no accident. It was the result of years of oil money buying off politicians to lead to an unregulated and ill focused addiction to oil and drilling. The doomed fate of the local fisherman and the environment were foretold in the infamous chants of 'Drill, Baby, Drill.' Show less «

Over and over again-in the movie, I have nine different people who have worked for Fox News network ...Show more »

Over and over again-in the movie, I have nine different people who have worked for Fox News network who have come forward and talked on camera, three of them anonymously, by the way. Show less «

It appears the Kochs are among the most defensive billionaires, preferring the comfy confines of the...Show more »

It appears the Kochs are among the most defensive billionaires, preferring the comfy confines of their callous and intellectually dishonest world view. Show less «

What I always try to do is make the political personal.

I do think that we are facing a crisis in our democracy. As true patriots, each and every one of us ...Show more »

I do think that we are facing a crisis in our democracy. As true patriots, each and every one of us has to speak up, speak out, and change those in charge. Our democracy depends upon it. Show less «

O'Reilly continues to hide behind his microphone.

You're talking to somebody who two years ago couldn't figure out how to use e-mail and who now has c...Show more »

You're talking to somebody who two years ago couldn't figure out how to use e-mail and who now has carpal tunnel. It has totally changed in that these films would not be getting out to people the way they're getting out without the Internet. Show less «

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