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Robert Greenwald(I)

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Robert Greenwald
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Robert Greenwald is president of Brave New Films, a nonprofit film company that he founded after a career in commercial television and film to motivate and educate viewers on the most pressing issues of the day.

Brave New Films distributes its work for free through social media and in concert with nonprofit partners and movements. The group's movies and videos have been screened around the world and viewed over tens of millions of times and counting.

At Brave New Films, Greenwald has directed and produced gripping full-length documentaries and exposés, as well as shorter documentary films and videos. His latest documentary, Suppressed: The Fight to Vote, tells the story of rampant voter suppression in Georgia's 2018 midterm elections.

Greenwald's investigative documentary shorts include Healing Trauma: Beyond Gangs and Prisons on Los Angeles' Homeboy Industries, 16 Women and Donald Trump on President Trump's serial abuse of women, and Immigrant Prisons on America's system of privately-run immigrant detention centers.

Previous feature-length investigative documentaries include Making a Killing: Guns, Greed, and the NRA, Unmanned: America's Drone Wars, War on Whistleblowers, Koch Brothers Exposed, Rethink Afghanistan, Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism and Uncovered: The War on Iraq.

Greenwald and Brave New Films' work has been featured widely in the media, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Variety, Hollywood Reporter and many more.

Before launching Brave Films in 2005, Greenwald produced and/or directed more than 65 TV movies, miniseries and films as well as major theatrical releases. His early body of work includes Steal This Movie!, Breaking Up, A Woman of Independent Means and The Burning Bed.

Greenwald has earned 25 Emmy Award 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.
BornAugust 28, 1945
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    • Nominated for 3 Primetime Emmys
      • 1 win & 4 nominations total

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    Olivia Newton-John in Xanadu (1980)
    Xanadu
    5.4
    • Director
    • 1980
    Sally Field in A Woman of Independent Means (1995)
    A Woman of Independent Means
    6.6
    TV Mini Series
    • Producer
    Susan Sarandon, Don Johnson, Jeff Daniels, and Elizabeth Perkins in Sweet Hearts Dance (1988)
    Sweet Hearts Dance
    5.7
    • Producer
    • 1988
    Breaking Up (1997)
    Breaking Up
    4.7
    • Producer
    • 1997

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    Producer



    • No More Trump Judges: How Trump's Three SCOTUS Picks Undid Decades of Progress (2024)
      No More Trump Judges: How Trump's Three SCOTUS Picks Undid Decades of Progress
      Video
      • producer
      • 2024
    • E. Jean Carroll v. Donald Trump (2024)
      E. Jean Carroll v. Donald Trump
      Video
      • producer
      • 2024
    • Donald Trump: A Racist with Racist Policies (2024)
      Donald Trump: A Racist with Racist Policies
      Video
      • producer
      • 2024
    • Suppressed 2024: The Fight to Vote (2024)
      Suppressed 2024: The Fight to Vote
      7.7
      Short
      • producer
      • 2024
    • Donald Trump's Crime Wave (2024)
      Donald Trump's Crime Wave
      Video
      • producer
      • 2024
    • Beyond Bars (2023)
      Beyond Bars
      7.2
      • producer
      • 2023
    • Flight/Risk (2022)
      Flight/Risk
      6.4
      • consulting producer
      • 2022
    • Racially Charged: America's Misdemeanor Problem (2020)
      Racially Charged: America's Misdemeanor Problem
      Short
      • producer
      • 2020
    • Suppressed: The Fight to Vote (2019)
      Suppressed: The Fight to Vote
      6.7
      Short
      • producer
      • 2019
    • Making a Killing: Guns, Greed, and the NRA (2016)
      Making a Killing: Guns, Greed, and the NRA
      5.2
      • producer
      • 2016
    • The National Security Forum (2015)
      The National Security Forum
      • producer
      • 2015
    • To Prison for Poverty
      Short
      • executive producer
      • 2014
    • Bad Paper
      Short
      • executive producer
      • 2014
    • Vanessa's Eight Year Sentence
      Short
      • executive producer
      • 2014
    • Jazree's Court: Growing Up in a Mass Incarcerated America
      Short
      • executive producer
      • 2014

    Director



    • No More Trump Judges: How Trump's Three SCOTUS Picks Undid Decades of Progress (2024)
      No More Trump Judges: How Trump's Three SCOTUS Picks Undid Decades of Progress
      Video
      • Director
      • 2024
    • E. Jean Carroll v. Donald Trump (2024)
      E. Jean Carroll v. Donald Trump
      Video
      • Director
      • 2024
    • Donald Trump: A Racist with Racist Policies (2024)
      Donald Trump: A Racist with Racist Policies
      Video
      • Director
      • 2024
    • Suppressed 2024: The Fight to Vote (2024)
      Suppressed 2024: The Fight to Vote
      7.7
      Short
      • Director
      • 2024
    • Trump's War on Women (2024)
      Trump's War on Women
      Video
      • Director
      • 2024
    • Donald Trump's Crime Wave (2024)
      Donald Trump's Crime Wave
      Video
      • Director
      • 2024
    • Trump... From Those Who Know Him (2024)
      Trump... From Those Who Know Him
      Video
      • Director
      • 2024
    • Beyond Bars (2023)
      Beyond Bars
      7.2
      • Director
      • 2023
    • Racially Charged: America's Misdemeanor Problem (2020)
      Racially Charged: America's Misdemeanor Problem
      Short
      • Director
      • 2020
    • Suppressed: The Fight to Vote (2019)
      Suppressed: The Fight to Vote
      6.7
      Short
      • Director
      • 2019
    • No More Detention: Free Pastor Noe
      Short
      • Director
      • 2017
    • Making a Killing: Guns, Greed, and the NRA (2016)
      Making a Killing: Guns, Greed, and the NRA
      5.2
      • Director
      • 2016
    • Unmanned: America's Drone Wars (2013)
      Unmanned: America's Drone Wars
      7.5
      • Director
      • 2013
    • War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State (2013)
      War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State
      7.3
      • Director
      • 2013
    • Koch Brothers Exposed (2012)
      Koch Brothers Exposed
      6.5
      • Director
      • 2012

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      • Robert G. Greenwald
    • Born
      • August 28, 1945
      • New York City, New York, USA
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        Heidi FreyApril 22, 1989 - present (2 children)
    • Parents
      • Harold Greenwald
    • Relatives
      • Michael Kidd(Aunt or Uncle)
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      (December 2, 1983 to January 22, 1984) He directed Ernest Thompson's play, "A Sense of Humor," in a world premiere at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California with Jack Lemmon, Estelle Parsons, Polly Holliday and Clifton James in the cast.

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      Father of Rachel Greenwald and Leah Greenwald.
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