Robert Greenwald is a producer, director and political activist. Greenwald is the founder and president of Brave New Films, a new media company that uses moving images to educate, influence, and empower viewers to take action around issues that matter. Under Greenwald's direction, Brave New Films has produced a series of short political videos, including the Fox Attacks and Real McCain campaigns. One of the more notable Real McCain videos focused on McCain's Mansions; after Brave New Films produced this video, McCain notoriously said he was not sure how many houses he owned and a media firestorm ensued. In total, Brave New Film's short videos have been viewed over 45 million times in the past two years, inspired hundreds of thousands of people to take action and forced pressing issues into the mainstream media. Robert Greenwald’s Brave New Foundation is currently producing Rethink Afghanistan, a groundbreaking documentary being released online in real-time; the film features experts from Afghanistan, Pakistan and the U.S. discussing the United States’ flawed strategy in Afghanistan. In August of 2009, Brave New Films launched Sick for Profit, a campaign that focuses on the exorbitant amounts of money made by health insurance companies’ CEOs. Within one week, the campaign’s first video was viewed over 100,000 times. Recently, Brave New Films also launched Senator Sanders Unfiltered, a two-minute weekly show in which Senator Sanders shares his views on an array of critical issues for our country. Read More →

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.

Leighton Woodhouse is the Political Director at Brave New Films. He started at BNF in late 2007. Prior to arriving at BNF, Leighton organized healthcare workers in a democratic, worker-led union, and served as Executive Director at DrivingVotes.org in the 2004 election. Leighton has a Masters degree in Sociology from UC Berkeley.

Martha de Hoyos is the Communications Director at Brave New Films. She has spent well over six years working in the labor movement in various leadership roles including communications and politics. Martha also worked in the field of economic development where she served as an economic development consultant for non profits throughout Southern California. She is a graduate of the New School where she received her Master's Degree in Public Policy.

Laura Beatty is the Vice President of Marketing & Distribution at Brave New Films where she leads efforts to attract and retain an audience through websites, social media, email, and emerging digital platforms. Before joining Brave New Films, Laura spent thirteen years in marketing for corporations, Internet start-ups, and agencies where she holds a strong track record of developing marketing campaigns for Helio, Nissan, Saturn, Nestle, Cheap Tickets, Fandango, Lower My Bills, and Sapient Interactive. She received a BBA in Marketing from the University of Texas at Austin.

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.

Lissette Roldan 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 associate editor on Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers. Since then, Lissette has edited several of the short investigative documentaries that were part of such campaigns as The Real Rudy, FOX Attacks, War on Greed and Fighting Foreclosure. Most recently, Lissette became the editor for Brave New Foundation's compelling new magazine show In Their Boots.

Christopher Sprinkle is a Campaign Producer at Brave New Films. Before coming to Brave New Films, he produced two popular public affairs radio programs, wrote and produced some twenty radio documentaries on subjects as diverse as political party conventions to reformed drug dealers. 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 created, produced and directed This Brave Nation - a five-part, award-winning, documentary-series that, in the words of The Nation magazine editors, "brought together the most intelligent, passionate and creative voices of one generation with the activists, journalists and artists of the next to dialogue on loves, lives, politics and history." Most recently, he has produced campaigns for Healthcare For America Now, American Rights At Work, Rock The Vote and SEIU.

Jason Zaro is a campaign producer at Brave New Films. His credits include the Rethink Afghanistan campaign and The Real McCain series. 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.

Phillip Cruess is an Editor and Cameraman for Brave New Films. In 2006, he graduated from the Digital Filmmaking program at the School of Communication Arts in Raleigh, NC as a member of the National Technical Honors Society. In ‘08, Phillip was lead editor for The REAL McCain series. In '09, he edited our groundbreaking documentary film Rethink Afghanistan. Phillip also travels to film many of the interviews for our various videos.

Erikka Yancy is the Studio Producer at Brave New Films and first joined the company as a 2007 production Fellow. During her time at Brave New Films, Erikka worked on Enemies of Change and War on Greed. As studio producer she produces weekly show Senator Sanders Unfiltered and irregular series Brave New Conversations. She is a graduate of the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago with a BFA in acting, and the American Film Institute with an MFA in producing. Her parents are proud of both of her extraordinarily practical degrees.

Myra Donnelley is Director of Development for Brave New Films. She brings with her more than twenty-five years experience as a grant writer and development strategist for not-for profits. Most recently, she co-designed a three-year strategic plan to enable a health and human rights advocacy organization to launch an interactive genetics curriculum web platform in partnership with four leading U.S. medical schools. Experience in youth development programming includes fundraising and community arts work in New York, Texas, Massachusetts, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska and California. Arts fundraising experience includes ten years as a fundraising consultant for individual artists and not-for-profit theaters. Myra holds a BA in theatre from Sarah Lawrence College and has pursued graduate degree work at New York University, Trinity College, Dublin, and University of Colorado/Boulder.