Wolfgang Busch

{{Short description|American film director}}

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Wolfgang Busch is a documentary filmmaker, director, producer, cinematographer, and editor. He directed and produced the 2006 documentary How Do I Look about the Harlem ballroom scene. He is the founder of Art from the Heart Films, which produces films and videos about the LGBT and disabled communities.

Originally from Heppenheim, West Germany, Busch emigrated to the United States in 1983 to work as a sound and light engineer with touring music bands, settling in New York City the following year, where he worked as a nightclub promoter.{{citation |title=Award-Winning Men: Up Close and Personal with Gay Honorees |first=Ed |last=Karvoski Jr |year=2002 |publisher=iUniverse |isbn=0-595-21769-9 |pages=29–30}} From 1990 to 2000, he hosted a public access television show called New York, New Rock, showcasing artists and nonprofits. He began volunteering with organizations in New York's LGBT community, and was given a "Volunteer of the Year" award in 2001 by the LGBT Community Center.

In 2006, Busch released the documentary How Do I Look about the Harlem ball community,{{cite web|url=https://www.wmagazine.com/story/lgbtq-documentaries-to-stream-pride/|title=5 LGBTQ Documentaries to Stream After Disclosure|date=8 June 2022|author=Marine, Brooke|magazine=W}} produced through his company Art From The Heart Films. The company has since produced other documentaries on other LGBT and disabled community art forms.{{citation |title=Art From The Heart Films [US] |url=https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?companies=co0683373}} Some of his footage appeared in the documentary After Stonewall.{{citation |title=After Stonewall |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244955/reference}}