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Robert Greenwald

Robert Greenwald is the president of Brave New Foundation as well as being a producer, director and political activist. Greenwald is the director/producer of several documentaries: "Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers" (2006), “Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price” (2005), and "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism" (2004). He also executive produced a trilogy of political documentaries: "Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election" (2002); "Uncovered: The Iraq War" (2003), which Greenwald also directed; and "Unconstitutional" (2004). More →

Jim Miller

Jim Miller is the Executive Director for Brave New Foundation. He joined the company when the Foundation was initially formed by putting together the coalition of over 100 groups (including Amnesty International, MoveOn, True Majority, and Voters For Peace) to push our unique system of distribution and house screenings for Iraq For Sale. Since then Jim has strengthened our distribution coalition so that our short videos now get 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.

Jim Gilliam

Jim Gilliam is the creator of Brave New Theaters and 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. More →

Devin Smith

Devin Smith is the Vice President of Operations and Development at Brave New Foundation. Previously, he was a producer at Robert Greenwald Productions where he co-produced the critically acclaimed documentaries 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. 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. 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.

Jesse Haff

Jesse Haff is the web producer for Brave New Foundation and joined the Brave New Films family in February 2005. He is a dedicated musician who has been writing and releasing albums in an internationally active band for several years. In the past two years he has worked on the massive online campaigns for Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers, The Big Buy: Tom DeLay's Stolen Congress and Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, in addition to redesigning all Brave New Films movie web sites. 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.

Paris Marron

Paris Marron is a Story Producer at Brave New Foundation. She has produced several of our short video campaigns, including the Iraq Veterans Memorial and Mother’s Day For Peace. Paris joined Brave New Films in June 2005, working on Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price and later as production coordinator on Iraq For Sale. Paris is a graduate of the Community Studies Department at University of California – Santa Cruz where she studied Social Change Documentary Film.

Lissette Roldan

Lissette Roldan is the editor of the Foundation project Brave News.  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 Brave News.

Leda Maliga

Leda Maliga is the Director of Production at Brave New Foundation, where she oversees production on all company projects. 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.

Leighton Woodhouse

Leighton Woodhouse is Communications Director at Brave New Foundation. 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.

Christopher Sprinkle

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.

Erikka Yancy

Erikka Yancy is an Associate Producer at Brave New Foundation (most recently she worked on the This Brave Nation series) and first joined the company as a 2007 Fellow. Erikka produced several narrative short films including the festival award-winning Marrying God. 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.

Elise Wagner

Elise Wagner is the Outreach Associate at Brave New Foundation. In this position, she works to form partnerships with other organizations. Prior to joining BNF, she worked with other organizations such as the Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum, Helen Keller International and the Alan Lomax Archive. She enjoys learning about other cultures and spent an academic year teaching English in the French Guiana in South America. Elise received her B.A. in Cultural Anthropology and French from Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts.

Ofelia Yanez

Ofelia Yanez was born in Mexico City, and raised in Dallas, TX. She attended Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (Theatre department), as well as The University of North Texas in Denton, TX (Majored in Radio, Television, and Film, Minored in Spanish). Ofelia just moved to LA 10 months ago.

Joshua Johnson

Joshua Johnson came to our program from Inner City Filmmakers. Josh made a silent 5 minute short film called Young Love, worked as a PA for an Independent movie and worked as a Set Dresser for a short and was a camera operator/interviewer for The Giffoni Film Festival 2007.

Alex Maldonado

Alex Maldonado was born in Mexico City and was raised in Anaheim and Ventura California. He graduated with a Bachelors degree in Digital Film making in 2007 from the Art Institute of Los Angeles.

Dominique Smith

Dominique Smith is a recent graduate from California State University, Los Angeles and won the award for Best Documentary and Best Experimental pieces in the 2007 Golden Eagles Film Festival. She has previously worked with The Wayans Brothers production company as well as being an Associate Producer of GurlTalkk TV. She is working on a documentary about art in the Crenshaw District of South Central Los Angeles, and is a wife and mother of two phenomenal children.