Robert Greenwald was born on August 28,1945 and 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.
23 Facts About Robert Greenwald
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Robert Greenwald was awarded the 2002 Producer of the Year Award by the American Film Institute.
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Robert Greenwald is son of the prominent psychotherapist Harold Greenwald, and the nephew of choreographer Michael Kidd.
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Robert Greenwald attended the city's High School of Performing Arts.
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Robert Greenwald started his directing career in the theater, with The People Vs Ranchman, A Long Time Coming and A Long Time Gone, Me and Bessie and I Have a Dream, a play based on the life of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Robert Greenwald moved to Los Angeles in 1972, where he continued working as a theater director at the Mark Taper Forum.
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Robert Greenwald later launched a career as a director for television, establishing first Moonlight Productions and then Robert Greenwald Productions, and began creating theatrical films, television movies, miniseries and documentaries with a distinct social and political sensibility.
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In 1977, Robert Greenwald received his first of three Emmy Award nominations for producing the television movie 21 Hours at Munich about the massacre at the 1972 Olympics.
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Robert Greenwald turned to documentary filmmaking in 2002, executive-producing three political documentaries known as "The Un Trilogy": Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election ; Uncovered: The Whole Truth About The Iraq War, which Robert Greenwald directed; and Unconstitutional: The War on Our Civil Liberties.
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At Brave New Films, Robert Greenwald has produced and directed numerous feature-length documentaries, along with many short films and videos.
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In 2013, Robert Greenwald released War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State and a documentary about the US government's drone program, Unmanned: America's Drone Wars.
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In 2018, Robert Greenwald created a short film to thank three Black women targeted by Donald Trump entitled, Thanks.
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In 2019, Robert Greenwald released Suppressed: The Fight to Vote about voter suppression in the 2018 Georgia election, in which Democrat Stacey Abrams narrowly lost to Republican Brian Kemp in the race for governor.
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Robert Greenwald has applied the principles of guerrilla filmmaking at Brave New Films, using small budgets and short shooting schedules to produce political documentaries and then distributing them on DVDs and the Internet in affiliation with advocacy groups such as MoveOn.
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Robert Greenwald's group takes full advantage of a variety of media outlets, such as Facebook and Twitter, and harnesses new distribution channels as soon as they emerge.
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Robert Greenwald has lectured at Harvard University for the Nieman Foundation for Journalism and speaks frequently across the country about his work.
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Robert Greenwald addressed the United States House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense regarding war profiteering on May 10,2007.
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In 2013, Robert Greenwald went to Capitol Hill , to discuss weaponized unmanned aerial vehicles with lawmakers.
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At a Congressional briefing, Robert Greenwald testified with the Rafiq Rehman family, the first Pakistani drone strike survivors to appear before Congress.
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Since May 2005, Robert Greenwald has been a contributing blogger to The Huffington Post.
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Robert Greenwald was awarded the 2002 Producer of the Year Award by the American Film Institute.
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Robert Greenwald has been honored for his investigative film work 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.
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Robert Greenwald has been the recipient of the following awards for his activism:.