Aaron Woolfolk is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and playwright.
Education
Woolfolk is a graduate of the University of California Berkeley, where he received bachelor"s degrees in Ethnic Studies and Rhetoric. He later graduated from Columbia University, where he received a Master of Fine Arts degree in Film with an emphasis on directing.
Career
He shot his first feature film The Harimaya Bridge in Kōchi Prefecture, Japan and San Francisco. The film had a nationwide theatrical release in Japan in the summer of 2009, and had a limited independent release in the United States in 2010. His play Bronzeville, which he co-wrote, opened to critical acclaim in 2009 and has since enjoyed two successful revivals.
Woolfolk was the recipient of an American Broadcasting Company Entertainment Talent Development Grant, and was later a Walt Disney Studios/American Broadcasting Company Entertainment Writing Fellow.
Woolfolk is a veteran of the Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme (Joint European Torus). He taught junior high school English in Kōchi Prefecture, Japan.
Woolfolk has a deep background in music, having played violin for several years. He also played viola, piano, and flute.
Achievements
Membership
As a teenager he was a member of Berkeley Youth Orchestra and Young People"s Symphony Orchestra. As a student at the University of California Berkeley he was a member of the University Symphony.