Robert Redford the Activist: Hollywood Icon Was Lifelong Champion of Environment & Independent Film
September 17, 2025
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Robert Redford, the legendary Oscar-winning director, actor and activist, died at the age of 89 on Tuesday. Redford was a longtime environmental activist who served for five decades as a trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council. He was also the creator of the Sundance Film Festival, which he helped grow into one of the largest independent film festivals in the world. Democracy Now! interviewed Redford many times over the years about his career, the importance of independent cinema and his environmental activism.
“I guess you could call me an activist,” Redford said in 2015. “The deniers of climate change are probably people who are afraid of change. They don’t want to see change.”
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