About Robert Greenwald
Robert Greenwald is an American filmmaker, and the founder of Brave New Films, a nonprofit film and advocacy organization whose work is distributed for free in concert with nonprofit partners and movements in order to educate and mobilize for progressive causes. With Brave New Films, Greenwald has made investigative documentaries such as 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 (2013), Suppressed 2020: The Fight to Vote (2020), Suppressed and Sabotaged: The Fight to Vote (2022), Suppressed and Sabotaged: The Fight to Vote (2024), Beyond Bars (2023), as well as many short investigative films and internet videos. In 2018, Greenwald created a short film to thank three Black women targeted by Donald Trump entitled, Thanks. At a Congressional briefing, Greenwald testified with the Rafiq Rehman family, the first Pakistani drone strike survivors to appear before Congress. He was awarded the 2002 Producer of the Year Award by the American Film Institute. Xanadu won the first Razzie for Worst Director at the 1st Golden Raspberry Awards and was nominated for six other awards.
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