BRAVE NEW FILMS – In The Media

This interview originally aired on B.Y.O.D for LipTV. 

Published on AlterNet by Asawin Suebsaeng for Mother Jones. 

On Tuesday, Brave New Films released a  new PSA calling on Congress to pass the  Smarter Sentencing Act. The proposed sentencing-reform legislation aims to reduce prison populations and costs by creating less severe minimum terms for nonviolent drug offenders. 

Robert Greenwald and David K. Johnson join Ed Schultz on The Ed Show to discuss income inequality and big business' unchecked spending and undue influence on politics in Washington. 

By Katie Rucke for Mint Press News. 

Robert Greenwald, filmmaker and founder of Brave New Films, recently announced a sequel to his 2012 film “Koch Brothers Exposed.” He said the new film will focus specifically on the duo’s efforts to buy the 2014 election, as well as how detrimental their support for Citizens United has been to the state of democracy in the United States.

By Andrea Germanos for Common Dreams. 

The United States "should revisit its position regarding legal justifications for the use of deadly force through drone attacks," a UN human rights body stated Thursday.

This OPED by Rep. Alan Grayson and Robert Greenwald originally appeared in The Hill. 

Three years ago last week, a U.S. drone strike hit the small town of Datta Khel in Pakistan. Local business owners and leaders were in the midst of a two-day tribal council meeting, called to address a dispute regarding a chromite mine in the area. Local authorities had been notified about the meeting, which is a traditional forum employed to resolve community conflicts.

Robert Greenwald discussed the cost of war in Afghanistan with Ed Schultz on the Ed Schultz Radio show on Wednesday, March 19th. 

By Tavis Smiley for Huffington Post.

Join me tonight on PBS for my conversation with award-winning filmmaker Robert Greenwald. He has exec-produced and/or directed more than 50 TV movies, miniseries and feature films. Through his company, Brave New Films, he also makes political video shorts and full-length documentaries -- substantive investigations of social issues, told through personal stories, and creatively distributed through such outlets as the Internet and social media. His latest film, Unmanned: America's Drone Wars, investigates the impact of drone strikes both here and abroad.

In the clip above, Greenwald shares his thoughts about President Obama's "kill list" and why he is getting a pass on drone strikes.

By Jeffrey Fleishman for the Los Angeles Times. 

In an old, whitewashed motel, where folklore has it studio executives once brought their secretaries for "lunch," Robert Greenwald, a mercurial man trailed by insults and death threats, leads a small band of filmmakers dedicated to unnerving political and corporate powers with righteous anger and quick-cut editing.