Richard Wolf (director)

Richard Wolf 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 and directed documentaries for TV Cultura, including De Volta para Casa which won the Ayrton Senna Journalism Award and TV Culturas O Grito da Periferia.
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.
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.
Wolf also directed A Requiem for Syrian Refugees, a film investigating the Syrian refugee camp known as Kawergosk, which was released theatrically in 2014.
In 2020, Wolf released the documentary Light Within the Cracks, which profiled people in the largest urban slum in Africa in Nairobi, Kenya. The film was an official selection at the New York International Reel Film Festival and the Manhattan Film Festival.
In 2023, Wolf released Ukraine 5.6, a documentary focused on the trauma of Ukraine war survivors.
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.