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ABOUT ROBERT GREENWALD
Robert Greenwald is a producer, director and political activist. Greenwald is the founder and president of Brave New Films, a new media company that uses moving images to educate, influence, and empower viewers to take action around issues that matter. Under Greenwald's direction, Brave New Films has produced a series of short political videos, including the
Fox Attacks and
Real McCain campaigns. One of the more notable Real McCain videos focused on
McCain's Mansions; after Brave New Films produced this video, McCain notoriously said he was not sure how many houses he owned and a media firestorm ensued. In total, Brave New Film's short videos have been viewed over 45 million times in the past two years, inspired hundreds of thousands of people to take action and forced pressing issues into the mainstream media.
Robert Greenwald's Brave New Foundation is currently producing
Rethink Afghanistan, a groundbreaking documentary being released online in real-time; the film features experts from Afghanistan, Pakistan and the U.S. discussing the United States' flawed strategy in Afghanistan. In August of 2009, Brave New Films launched
Sick for Profit, a campaign that focuses on the exorbitant amounts of money made by health insurance companies' CEOs. Within one week, the campaign's first video was viewed over 100,000 times. Recently, Brave New Films also launched
Senator Sanders Unfiltered, a two-minute weekly show in which Senator Sanders shares his views on an array of critical issues for our country.
In addition, Greenwald is the director/producer of several documentaries: "
Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers" (2006), an expose of what happens when corporations go to war; as well as "
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price" (2005), detailing the retail giant's assault on families and American values; and "
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism" (2004), about the right-wing opinion factory known as Fox "News". Millions of viewers have seen these films via grassroots "house parties" and independent online DVD sales, a groundbreaking method of alternative distribution. Greenwald also executive produced a trilogy of political documentaries: "
Unprecedented: The 2000 Election" (2002); "
Uncovered: The War on Iraq" (2003), which he also directed; and "Unconstitutional" (2004).
Prior to his documentary work, Greenwald produced and/or directed more than 55 television movies, miniseries and feature films. Greenwald's films have garnered 25 Emmy nominations, two Golden Globe nominations, the Peabody Award and the Robert Wood Johnson Award. He was awarded the 2002 Producer of the Year Award by the American Film Institute. He has been honored for his activism by the ACLU Foundation of Southern California; the Liberty Hill Foundation; the Los Angeles chapter of the National Lawyers Guild; Physicians for Social Responsibility; Consumer Attorney's Association of Los Angeles; Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy and the Office of the Americas.
SELECTED PRESS
"How to Make a Guerrilla Documentary"
By
Robert S. Boynton | New York Times Magazine | 7/11/2004
The offices of Robert Greenwald Productions occupy a slightly rundown, horseshoe-shaped building in Los Angeles, just down the street from Culver Studios, the legendary movie facility where "Gone With the Wind" and "Citizen Kane" were filmed. Back in the day, the R.G.P. building, then a motel, was used by studio executives for liaisons with starlets and mistresses. Though no longer a Hollywood love nest, it still has a whiff of the illicit about it -- and still operates in the shadow of several corporate studios. More &rarr
IRAQ FOR SALE: THE WAR PROFITEERS (more reviews)
By Jeannette Catsoulis | New York Times | 9/8/2006
"Mr. Greenwald compiles a horrifying catalog of greed, corruption and incompetence among private contractors in Iraq, focusing primarily on Halliburton, Blackwater Security Consulting and CACI International. Leading off with the infamous torture and murder of four Blackwater employees in Falluja in 2004 — men whose families contend were callously placed in harm’s way — the movie goes on to trace connections between the contractors and the Republican Party, assert the buying of influence and explore what it says are questionable accounting systems that encourage exorbitant waste of taxpayer money. And that’s just the first 30 minutes." More →
WAL-MART: THE HIGH COST OF LOW PRICE (more reviews)
By Owen Gleiberman | Entertainment Weekly | 11/1/2005
"With little fanfare, Robert Greenwald has become one of the most incisive activist filmmakers in America. Like his superb eve-of-the-election docs, Uncovered: The War on Iraq and Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism, Wal-Mart is an investigative outcry driven by stringent reporting rather than attitude." A-
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OUTFOXED: RUPERT MURDOCH'S WAR ON JOURNALISM (more reviews)
By David Rooney | Variety | 7/20/2004
"Greenwald's film provides stimulating evidence of how thoroughly news can be skewed, politcal agendas served and a climate of fear created by a news net selling itself as an objective information service but in reality offering little distinction between news and commentary."
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UNCOVERED: THE WAR ON IRAQ (more reviews)
By John Anderson | Newsday | 8/20/2004
"Blow-by-blow debunking by experts of the Bush administration's case for war ... "Uncovered: The War on Iraq" is about as damning a document as one could imagine about the "rationalization and justification" for the ongoing quagmire in that unfortunate Middle Eastern country."
