Robert Greenwald

Robert Greenwald is a producer, director and political activist. Greenwald is the director/producer of IRAQ FOR SALE: THE WAR PROFITEERS (2006), a documentary about what happens to everyday Americans when corporations go to war, WAL-MART: THE HIGH COST OF LOW PRICE (2005) and OUTFOXED: RUPERT MURDOCH'S WAR ON JOURNALISM (2004). He also executive produced a trilogy of political documentaries: UNPRECEDENTED: THE 2000 ELECTION (2002); UNCOVERED: THE IRAQ WAR (2003), which Greenwald also directed; and UNCONSTITUTIONAL (2004).

BRAVE NEW FILMS, Greenwald's new media company, is working on telling stories using film that will influence the debates about the most important issues of the day and is currently in production on two series— the ACLU FREEDOM FILES and THE SIERRA CLUB CHRONICLES – which can be seen on Link TV and via the internet.

For his political work, Greenwald has received the Liberty Hill Foundation’s Upton Sinclair Award and Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE)’s City of Justice Award. He has also been honored by the ACLU Foundation of Southern California, the Los Angeles chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, Physicians for Social Responsibility and the Office of the Americas.

In addition to his documentary work, Greenwald has produced and/or directed more than 50 television movies and miniseries for every major network and cable company. 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.