Aaron Woolf is an award-winning documentary journalist and small business entrepreneur. His filmmaking has focused on the human dimension of government policy, and his work in business has focused on building resilient rural infrastructures, particularly at home in Essex County, NY.

Aaron is the director and producer of the critically acclaimed film, King Corn, for which he won a Peabody Award. Other works include Greener Grass: Cuba, Baseball, and the United States; Dying to Leave: The Global Face of Human Trafficking and Smuggling; Denial, Beyond the Motor City, and To Be A Miss.

At the start of 2021, Aaron had four projects in production including The Happening, a documentary about undocumented migrants serving long sentences in the US prison system, and The Iowa Mountaineers, which looks at a locus for birth of wilderness education in the heart of the corn belt.

Aaron is interested in ways to repurpose infrastructures to support fair and efficient distribution of locally produced food. In 2007, he founded Urban Rustic, a Brooklyn NY market cafe designed to connect downstate consumers with upstate-sourced local and organic foods. In 2016, he led efforts to re-open the Deer’s Head Inn in Elizabethtown, NY, refocusing the 19th century tavern on local food. More recently he has focused on recreational development.