Career
Woolf has been shooting commercials, music videos, documentaries and films internationally since 1995. He was the Director of Photography on The Inbetweeners (2001), the first digitally shot United Kingdom feature to be given a national box office release, distributed by Universal Studios. After moving to the United States of America in 2003, Woolf helmed numerous productions for many of the major United States networks and cable channels.
He was Director of Photography on Sebastian Doggart’s 15 Films About Madonna (A&East) as well as major television shows America"s Most Wanted (Fox), Wife Swap (American Broadcasting Company), Town Haul (Discovery), Growing Up Gotti (A&East) and the cult Music Television hit The City.
He filmed one of the last interviews with soul legend James Brown in his house for Sid Bernstein Presents (2007), a feature documentary about the agent who brought The Beatles to America, along with Jason Ressler. He was also at the cinematography helm for a Promax-award winning spot for Music Television"s Dirty Sanchez.
Film Snobbery reviewed his cinematography on the latter film thus: "This documentary is exactly how docs should be shot, and would make veteran documentary directors like Albert Maysles proud. lieutenant is certainly shot well, it keeps attention focused (which can sometimes be hard to do with a documentary), and makes you both sympathize with and hate the subject all within the span of an hour and a half."
He was co-Director of Photography on Peace One Day, a documentary about World Peace Day (September 21), which shot in Sudan and Kenya in 2006.
He helmed Music Television"s flagship sketch comedy show Short Circuitz (2007).
He has shot nationally-broadcast commercials for Puma, Pirelli, International Netherlands Group and Maxim, and shot music videos for The Rolling Stones (lieutenant"s Only Rock "n Roll (But I Like lieutenant)), B. B. King, and Annie Lennox. He also lensed and co-produced the feature film Crimson Mask (2009), most notably the martial arts fight scenes.
