Political filmmaker Robert Greenwald makes low-budget movies using innovative distribution. Will he change hearts and minds?
By JEFFREY RESSNER | Time
Director Robert Greenwald has produced more than 50 TV movies and a handful of feature films during his 30-year showbiz career. But he’s best known now as the rabble-rouser behind politically charged attacks on Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News (Outfoxed), big box department stores (Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price) and now the mercenary and munitions companies getting rich off of U.S. Defense Department contracts. Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers will open the same innovative way Greenwald’s previous documentaries have screened — in a select few theaters starting September 8th, a DVD release mid-month, and later thousands of grass-roots “house parties” where the documentary video is played for invited friends and neighbours. TIME’s Jeffrey Ressner spoke with Greenwald as two of his films — the one he directed, another he produced — appear on the scene.
TIME: What kind of reactions have you gotten from your recent documentaries?
How are you maturing as a documentarian?
You’ve taken as many hits as you’ve dished out. Do you worry about reprisals from your subjects?
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