Richard Wolf (director)
{{Short description|Brazilian film director}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Richard Wolf
| image = Richard Wolf.jpg
| birth_date = April 1956
| birth_place = Brazil
| nationality = Brazilian
American
| education = Columbia University (M.A.)
New School University (Ph.D.)
| occupation = Documentary film director
| years_active = 1997-present
| website = {{URL|lobodocs.com}}
}}
Richard Wolf (born Ricardo Lobo; 1956) is a Brazilian-American documentary film director. He directed the documentary films Light Within the Cracks and A Requiem for Syrian Refugees.
Career
Wolf worked under the name Ricardo Lobo in Brazil. He produced special reports for Documento Especial{{Cite web |title=Documento Especial: Televisão Verdade {{!}} Rede Manchete |url=https://manchete.org/jornalismo/sobre/documento-especial-televisao-verdade,%20https://manchete.org/jornalismo/sobre/documento-especial-televisao-verdade/ |access-date=2024-04-22 |language=pt-BR}} and directed documentaries for TV Cultura, including De Volta para Casa which won the Ayrton Senna Journalism Award{{Cite web |date=April 7, 1999 |title=GP Ayrton Senna de Jornalismo define classificados |url=https://www.folhadelondrina.com.br/geral/gp-ayrton-senna-de-jornalismo-define-classificados-141016.html?d=1 |website=folhadelondrina.com}} and TV Cultura{{`}}s O Grito da Periferia (1999).{{Cite web |title=Cultura fala de hip hop para combater a pobreza| trans-title=Culture talks about hip hop to combat poverty|url=https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/ilustrad/fq19059913.htm |access-date=2024-04-22 |website=Folha}}
Lobo changed his name to Richard Wolf and moved to the United States, where he directed documentaries such as the 2001 film Behind the Veil, a film investigating women's underground resistance against fundamentalism in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.{{Cite web |date=September 1, 2022 |title=The Inclusions and Occlusions of Expanded Refugee Narratives: A Dialogue on Flee |url=https://online.ucpress.edu/fq/article/76/1/23/192967/The-Inclusions-and-Occlusions-of-Expanded-Refugee |website=ucpress.edu}}
Wolf's 2003 film Women of the Sand: Nomad Islamic Women, focused on women in the Mauritanian desert, is part of the Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection.{{Cite web |title=Women of the Sand: Nomad Islamic Women - reviews and where to watch - good.film |url=https://good.film/title/movie/1168174/women-of-the-sand-nomad-islamic-women |access-date=2024-04-22 |website=good.film |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Kanopy - Stream Classic Cinema, Indie Film and Top Documentaries |url=https://www.kanopy.com/en/product/263342?vp=pimalibrary |access-date=2024-04-22 |website=www.kanopy.com}}{{Cite book |url=https://dallascountylibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S200C244406 |title=Women of the Sand |date=2008 |publisher=dallas county library |editor-last=Lobodocs (Firm) |location=San Francisco, California, USA |oclc=985065461 |editor-last2=Kanopy (Firm)}}
Wolf also directed A Requiem for Syrian Refugees, a film investigating the Syrian refugee camp known as Kawergosk, which was released theatrically in 2014.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2014-10-17 |title='A Requiem for Syrian Refugees': Film Review |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/a-requiem-syrian-refugees-film-741654/ |access-date=2024-04-22 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}}{{Cite news |date=October 16, 2014 |title=Lives Uprooted by War |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/17/arts/a-requiem-for-syrian-refugees-about-fleeing-conflict.html |work=The NY Times}}{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2014-10-15 |title=A Requiem for Syrian Refugees Is Pained but Beautiful |url=https://www.villagevoice.com/a-requiem-for-syrian-refugees-is-pained-but-beautiful/ |access-date=2024-04-22 |website=The Village Voice}}
In 2020, Wolf released the documentary Light Within the Cracks, which profiled people in the largest urban slum in Africa in Nairobi, Kenya.{{Cite web |title=Manhattan Film Festival {{!}} Film Pages {{!}}LIGHT WITHIN THE CRACKS |url=https://www.manhattanff.com/film_pages/view/630 |access-date=2024-04-22 |website=www.manhattanff.com}} The film was an official selection at the New York International Reel Film Festival and the Manhattan Film Festival.{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=New York City International Reel Film Festival |url=https://nycreelfilmfestival.com/official-selections-2020 |access-date=2024-04-22 |website=New York City International Reel Film Festival |language=en-US}}
In 2023, Wolf released Ukraine 5.6, a documentary focused on the trauma of Ukraine war survivors.{{Cite web |date=November 3, 2023 |title=Ukraine 5.6 |url=https://videolibrarian.com/reviews/documentary/ukraine-5-6/ |website=videolibrarian.com}}
Wolf has also made films for the United Nations, including a documentary on the UN Security Council, as well as reports on AIDS and environmental community activities.{{Cite web |date=2003-01-01 |title=Beyond the Headlines: The United Nations Security Council {{!}} UN Audiovisual Library |url=https://media.un.org/avlibrary/en/asset/d199/d1998496 |access-date=2024-04-22 |website=media.un.org |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2019-04-14 |title=World AIDS Day {{!}} United Nations UN Audiovisual Library |url=https://www.unmultimedia.org/tv/unia/asset/UNA0/UNA0057/ |access-date=2024-04-22 |archive-date=2019-04-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190414161845/https://www.unmultimedia.org/tv/unia/asset/UNA0/UNA0057/ |url-status=bot: unknown }}{{Cite web |date=2008-08-16 |title=Sri Lanka / Sea Turtles {{!}} Un Audiovisual Library |url=https://media.un.org/avlibrary/en/asset/u080/u080816a |access-date=2024-04-22 |website=media.un.org |language=en}}
Filmography
| class="wikitable"
!Year !Title !Ref |
| 1997
|Rebel Mexico |
| 1997
|Crianças de Fibra | |
| 1998
|De Volta para Casa |
| 1999
|O Grito da Periferia | |
| 2001
|Behind the Veil: Afghan Women under Fundamentalism |
| 2003
|Women of the Sand: Nomad Islamic Women |
| 2004
|Beyond the Headlines: The UN Security Council |
| 2008
|Dishonourable Killings |
| 2013
|Rue Moufettard |
| 2014 |
| 2018
|The Antechamber of Hell | |
| 2019
|Kibera: The Big Build | |
| 2020
|Light Within the Cracks |
| 2023
|Ukraine 5.6 |