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Filmmaker and political activist Robert Greenwald is the director/producer of "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).

The filmmaker's latest undertaking, a series of short viral
videos, includes "Fox Attacks: Iran" and "The Real Rudy," which were
seen online by more than 840,000 people within weeks of distribution.
Collectively the short videos released have garnered over 7.5 Million
views.

Brave New Films, Greenwald's new media company, uses moving images to educate, influence, and empower viewers to take action around issues that matter. Brave New Films released the "The Big Buy: Tom DeLay's Stolen Congress" in May of 2006 and recently produced two TV series: "ACLU Freedom Files" and "The Sierra Club Chronicles" – which can be seen on Link TV, Court TV (ACLU) and via the internet.

Prior to his documentary work, Greenwald produced and/or directed more than 50 television movies, miniseries and feature films, including: "The Book of Ruth" (2004), based on the bestselling book by Jane Hamilton; "The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron" (2003); "The Burning Bed," starring Farrah Fawcett as an abused housewife; "Shattered Spirits", starring Martin Sheen, about alcoholism; and "Forgotten Prisoners", about the work of Amnesty International.

Greenwald also produced and directed the feature film, "Steal This Movie," starring Vincent D'Onofrio as 60's radical Abbie Hoffman, as well as "Breaking Up," starring Russell Crowe and Salma Hayek.

Greenwald's films have garnered 25 Emmy nominations, four cable ACE Award nominations, two Golden Globe nominations, the Peabody Award, the Robert Wood Johnson Award, and eight Awards of Excellence from the Film Advisory Board. 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 L.A. 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. He was a co-founder (with Mike Farrell) of "Artists United," a group of actors and others opposed to the war in Iraq.

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 »

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." Full Review »

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."