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Meet the Brave New Films team
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Robert Greenwald is a producer, director and political activist. Greenwald is the director/producer of several documentaries: "Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers" (2006), an expose of what happens when corporations go to war; as well as "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price" (2005), detailing the retail giant's assault on families and American values; and "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism" (2004), about the right-wing opinion factory known as Fox "News." Millions of viewers have seen these films via grassroots "house parties" and independent online DVD sales, a groundbreaking method of alternative distribution.
Greenwald also executive produced a trilogy of political documentaries: "Unprecedented: The 2000 Election" (2002); "Uncovered: The War on Iraq" (2003), which he also directed; and "Unconstitutional" (2004). The filmmaker's latest undertaking, a series of short viral videos, includes "Fox Attacks: Obama" and "The Real McCain," which were seen online by more than 700,000 people within weeks of distribution.
Brave New Films, Greenwald's new media company, uses moving images to educate, influence, and empower viewers to take action around issues that matter. Brave New Films released the "The Big Buy: Tom DeLay's Stolen Congress" in May of 2006 and recently produced two TV series: "ACLU Freedom Files" and "The Sierra Club Chronicles" – which can be seen on Link TV, Court TV (ACLU) and via the internet. More → |
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| Leda Maliga is the Vice President of Production at Brave New Films. Leda is an award winning documentary filmmaker, her film, Pilar, won "Best Documentary Feature" at the 2006 Visionfest Film Festival and at the 2005 ReelHeart Film Festival. She has produced numerous short films, scripted and reality television, interactive video and online games. Leda earned her BA in Film and Video from Hampshire College in Amherst Massachusetts.
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Jim Miller is the Executive Director of Brave New Films. In addition to being on the phone every day with our lawyers to make sure we are doing everything correctly, Jim is responsible for forming our coalitions to help spread our videos throughout the world. We currently have over 1.5 million views per month. His film experience began over 20 years ago working on the film Bull Durham and includes being the Director of Development for The Shooting Gallery, an independent film company which produced 'Sling Blade' and 'You Can Count on Me', and Head of Acquisitions for Cinema Park Distribution. Immediately prior the BNF, Jim produced the star-studded 'Les Girls' charity benefits for the National Breast Cancer Coalition. |
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| Leighton Woodhouse is Communications Director at Brave New Films. Prior to arriving at BNF, Leighton organized for SEIU United Healthcare Workers West, and served as Executive Director at DrivingVotes.org in the 2004 election. Leighton has a Masters degree in Sociology from UC Berkeley.
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| Jim Gilliam is a former dot com executive turned activist filmmaker. In the wake of 9/11, Gilliam left his position as chief technology officer of high-profile startup Business.com and devoted his time to more pressing matters. Through MoveOn.org, in 2003, he hooked up with veteran filmmaker Robert Greenwald to research and help produce the groundbreaking documentary, Uncovered: The War on Iraq about the faulty intelligence that led the U.S. to war. Bringing together the world of film, politics, and the internet, "Uncovered" defined a new generation of films -- the grassroots political documentary. Gilliam then co-produced Greenwald's next film, Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism, an unprecedented look at the propaganda techniques employed by FOX News, and produced Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price and Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers. He is also the creator of Brave New Theaters. More → |
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Devin Smith is the Vice President of Operations at Brave New Films. Previously, he was a producer at Robert Greenwald Productions where he co-produced the critically acclaimed documentaries Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism and Uncovered: The War on Iraq. At Brave New Films, Devin has produced Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price and he was also the supervising producer on two documentary television series – The ACLU Freedom Files and The Sierra Club Chronicles. Currently, he oversees the operations and business affairs of the company and is producing Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers. Prior to producing film and television projects in Los Angeles, Devin founded and operated a graphics company (Ideas to Images) in North Carolina. He also worked for several years for indie film company DownHome Entertainment. Devin received his BS degree in business from Wake Forest University’s Wayne Calloway School of Business and Accountancy. He is also a graduate of the American Film Institute (AFI) where he earned his Master of Fine Arts degree in Motion Picture Producing. |
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Jesse Haff is a dedicated musician who has been writing and releasing albums in an internationally active band for several years. He is also a web and graphic designer and proudly joined Brave New Films as a web producer in February 2005. In the past three years he has designed and worked on the massive online campaigns for Iraq for Sale, The Big Buy and the Wal-Mart Movie, in addition to a slew of issue campaign sites such as the War on Greed, FOX Attacks, FOX News Porn, The REAL Rudy and more. Prior to Brave New Films, Haff earned a degree in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Asheville, as well as creating numerous high profile artist web sites.
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Lissette Roldan is an editor for the Brave New Foundation issue campaigns. Lissette joined Brave New Films in February of 2005 as an assistant editor for Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price. She was then the asscociate editor on Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers. In between Lissette has edited several promos, clip reels, and other shorts for Brave New Films. With her new job at Brave New Foundation, Lissette is responsible for editing the dozens of short pieces being created for the issue campaigns.
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Christopher Sprinkle is a Producer at Brave New Foundation. He is currently working on our Issue Campaigns. He has produced two popular public affairs radio programs, written and produced some twenty radio documentaries on subjects as diverse as political party conventions to reformed drug dealers, produced live event coverage from the Presidential Inauguration in D.C. to the inaugural broadcast of a South American cable news network in Caracas, Venezuela, and he also created the country's only history program on public radio, The Pacifica Radio Archives: From the Vault, heard on public radio stations across the United States. He is directing and editing a documentary film on a Fellini-esque marching band from Portland, OR, in his spare time, of which he doesn't have a lot.
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Jonathan Kim is a Co-Producer at Brave New Films. He co-produces the Fox Attacks series and blogs for the bravenewfilms.org and foxattacks.com websites under his nom de guerre, DJK. Before joining Brave New Films in May of 2007, Jonathan worked as a ranch hand on a small ranch in Santa Barbara wine country, where his duties included general maintenance, gardening, and tending the ranch's goats, zebras and chickens. During his three and a half years there, Jonathan also produced and directed several documentaries with the Santa Ynez Chumash tribe, as well as a series of anti-recruitment ads. Prior to that, Jonathan attended the Vancouver Film School and worked as a copywriter and hand model for the Sharper Image. Jonathan graduated from Haverford College with a degree in sociology.
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Jason Zaro is a Campaign Producer at Brave New Foundation. His previous experience includes production work on many network and cable television shows, both scripted and reality-based. Jason is a graduate of the University of Michigan with a BA in Film & Video Studies. In addition to his wealth of production skills, Jason is also very adept at building Ikea furniture.
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ZP Heller is the Editorial Director of Brave New Films. He has written for The Huffington Post, The American Prospect, AlterNet, and The Philadelphia Inquirer, covering everything from politics to pop culture. Prior to Brave New Films, Heller was a freelance writer by night and a crossword puzzle editor by day. He is a graduate of Brandeis University and holds an MFA in creative writing from The New School. Currently, he lives in Philadelphia. |
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