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.

Brave New Films (BNF) has released documentaries that examine key issues affecting Americans today, including government corruption, voting restriction legislation, criminal justice reform, and reproductive freedom. Through BNF, Greenwald has produced and directed Gaza: Journalists Under Fire, a harrowing look at war crimes committed by Israel against Palestinian journalists and told through the lives and deaths of three Gaza reporters. BNF has also released Suppressed and Sabotaged: The Fight to Vote, an exposé of voter suppression laws enacted across the US. Additionally, Greenwald directed and produced the full-length documentary Beyond Bars, which offers an intimate window into former San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin’s beginnings as a child of imprisoned parents, to his efforts to reform the criminal carceral system.  

Other short, hard-hitting, and wide-reaching social justice films include: E. Jean Carroll v. Donald Trump, a short documentary spotlighting the egregious crimes of sexual assault by Donald Trump and starring Kathryn Hahn, Ellen Burstyn, Regina Taylor, and Lexi Underwood; Reproductive Freedom, which offers personal perspectives from a diverse group of women about their lives since the overturning of Roe v. Wade; and  Trump... From Those Who Know Him, featuring former Trump allies who now find him shockingly unfit for officeRelevant 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.  

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 from 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).