Wolfer Productions produces documentaries both short and long on issues of humanitarian aid and migration. Our team has worked in over 40 countries and is ready to deploy within 24 hours equipped with solar and survival gear, and self-sufficient for up to a week. We are ready to tell stories as they unfold.
Our Emmy Award-winning work has been featured on PBS affiliates, CNN online, and HULU.com, as well as numerous conferences and film festivals.
The Right Girls is a documentary film which follows three young transgender women who trek across Mexico as part of the high-profile migrant caravan of 2018. Teaming up in southern Mexico with the goal of reaching the U.S. border, the girls find themselves hitching rides and jumping trucks, anything to complete the long journey north. Their LGBTQ status continues to make them targets. Adding to their struggle to find food is the constant challenge to stay safe.
Bern-ing up the Iowa Caucus
Larry Ginter has been living just outside Des Moines Iowa in the same house his entire life. While most people in his community believe less regulation is the only way forward; Larry thinks the roll back of regulations is the cause of so many farmers losing their homes.
Putting his support behind Bernie Sanders, Larry calls friends, knocks on doors and reads everything so he can argue how Bernie is best for Iowa.
As Mayor Pete supporters roll into the room with more signs and cookies, Larry soon realizes his bid to win his community for Bernie is lost.
As thousands of Rohingya refugees poured over the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh, Wolfer Productions documented the influx of people into camps, the work being done by aid groups, and the personal stories of people affected by conflict.
Driving his truck through the flooded streets of Houston, one resident gives a woman a ride to see the flood damage done to her house for the first time.
First came Hurricane Irma and, days after, Hurricane Maria. In disbelief, Ramos gives a tour of Road Town, Tortola in the British Virgin Islands. The film was used to raise awareness and money for several small NGO’s to aid in their work.
For the last five years, South Sudan has been in the middle of a civil war. As the global need for aid has increased, UN Organizations and NGO’s have had to look for creative approaches to help the affected populations. This series of films looks at some of the techniques being used to streamline assistance.
Adopting Haiti looks at CNN’s Soledad O’Brien and Anderson Cooper and the influence they had on the U.S. State Department in the evacuation of 135 orphans in the wake of the catastrophic 2010 earthquake. The Wolfer Productions team hitchhiked in days after the earthquake with only the necessary supplies they could carry. This documentary was featured on Hulu.com for the one-year tribute to the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.
In partnership with the Hospice Foundation, Road to Hope tells the stories of children in East Africa caring for their HIV-positive parents. The film follows the lives of four children as they become caretakers and eventually learn to survive without their parents. The film is narrated by Torrey DeVitto, star of Chicago Med and Pretty Little Liars and has been an official selection in 23 festivals and has been honoured with multiple awards.
South Sudan is the newest country in the world and is currently in the centre of an armed conflict dealing with the future leadership of the nation. When the fighting broke out in December of 2013, citizens of the country ran to the UN bases seeking refuge. This documentary looks at an IDP camp (Internally Displaced People) in Malakal, South Sudan and how the different UN partners are collaborating to provide protection, food, and shelter to the people living on the UN compound.
Over the course of 8 Years, Wolfer Productions has traveled to Bangladesh to tell the stories of Tisha Marre and Kokoli as they grow up in an orphanage, Bangla-Hope.
Renewable energy is one of the most pressing issues of today and a major part of the democratic primary in Iowa. This film was used to help show Bernie Sanders and Marten O’Malley’s commitment to the cause.
An Emmy-winning series that goes beyond the news to show the intersection of social values and business in today’s world events. Wolfer Productions has been producing the show for the last two seasons telling stories of organic farming in Egypt, to female condoms reducing HIV rates in East Africa, to the big business of human trafficking and the first humanitarian project into Cuba since the Eisenhower administration.
Over the course of 8 Years, Wolfer Productions has traveled to Bangladesh to tell the stories of Tisha Marre and Kokoli as they grow up in an orphanage, Bangla-Hope. The films create awareness of these orphans’ active lives and help to raise funds through social media and the local community.
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