Bio

Timothy Wolfer began his filmmaking career as an intern for a Northern Indiana PBS station, ultimately working as a Director of Photography, Editor, Producer and Director for a variety of local programs.

Hurricane Katrina would serve as his introduction into documentary filmmaking, culminating in three trips to storm-ravaged Mississippi and New Orleans to document the people and their plight.

More recently Wolfer completed an internship with American Zoetrope, working as a production assistant on Sofia Coppola's most recent film "Somewhere."

Wolfer has traveled extensively, spending three months in Mozambique filming humanitarian efforts such as the construction of churches, establishing schools and drilling water wells for the locals. This was followed by freelance productions in Bangladesh, Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico, Costa Rica, Uganda and the Sudan.

The January 12, 2010 earthquake outside of Porta-au-Prince, Haiti inspired Wolfer to film the struggles of the local Maison des Enfants de Dieu orphanage. Hitchhiking into Port-au-Prince, and living solely off of what he could carry in his backpack, Wolfer documented the battle and ultimate evacuation of 130 orphans from Haiti and their eventual resettlement in the United States. The resulting documentary "Adopting Haiti" was released January 2011 on Hulu.com and has been screened at several film festivals and humanitarian events around the world. The film went on to win the San Diego indie fest "Best Documentary" and a silver "Telly Award".