Robert Greenwald is the founder and president of Brave New Films, a nonprofit production company that creates and distributes investigative political and social justice documentaries. 

Relevant to the current U.S. presidential election, Brave New Films (BNF) is releasing a series of documentaries that examine key issues affecting Americans today, including voting restriction legislation, criminal justice reform, and reproductive freedom. 

The 2024 lineup features Suppressed and Sabotaged: The Fight to Vote, an exposé of voter suppression laws enacted across the U.S. Additionally, 

Greenwald directed and produced the full-length documentary Beyond Bars: A Son’s Fight for Justice, offering an intimate window into former San Francisco district attorney Chesa Boudin’s beginnings as a child of imprisoned parents and his later efforts to reform the criminal carceral system.   

BNF is also producing an impactful documentary short, Reproductive Freedom, which offers personal perspectives from a diverse group of women about their lives since the over-turning of Roe v. Wade.  

Greenwald and Brave New Films continue to provide short, hard-hitting, and wide-reaching social justice films, such as Trump... From Those Who Know Him, which features former Trump allies who now find him shockingly unfit for office. Currently available on YouTube, the short has generated more than 1.6 million views across social platforms. 

Brave New Films distributes its films free of charge through both social channels and registered screenings, in concert with schools, faith communities, and other nonprofit partners. BNF’s movies and videos have been screened worldwide and viewed tens of millions of times.

Greenwald’s documentary shorts include Healing Trauma: Beyond Gangs and Prisons, covering Los Angeles’ Homeboy Industries; 16 Women and Donald Trump revealing the former president’s serial abuse of women; and Immigrant Prisons, on America’s system of privately-run immigrant detention centers.  

Previous feature-length investigative documentaries include Making a Killing: Guns, Greed, and the NRA, Unmanned: America's Drone Wars, War on Whistleblowers, Koch Brothers Exposed, Rethink Afghanistan, Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism and Uncovered: The War on Iraq. 

Greenwald and Brave New Films’ work has been featured widely in the media, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Variety, and Hollywood Reporter. 

Before launching Brave Films in 2005, Greenwald produced and/or directed more than 65 TV movies, miniseries, and films as well as major theatrical releases. His early body of work includes Steal This Movie!, Breaking Up, A Woman of Independent Means, and The Burning Bed.  

A recipient of a multitude of awards and accolades, Greenwald has earned 25 Emmy Award nominations and two Golden Globe nominations. For his film Sharing a Secret, he was awarded a Peabody and honored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for Medical and Health Programming. He also received the 2002 Producer of the Year Award by the American Film Institute.  

Additional honors include: The Laurel Award for Outfoxed (2008); The Christopher Award (1981) for media that “affirm the highest values of the human spirit; The Maggie Award from Planned Parenthood Federation; The Garden Party Award by the ACLU of Southern California (2003 & 2013); Physicians for Responsibility Los Angeles Peacemaker Award (2003), and The Los Angeles Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild Honor to Greenwald as a Producer and Director who uses his talent and artistry to promote better understanding between people and advance the cause of peace, justice and freedom for Rage for Justice, Citizen Activist of the Year (2004).