Director / Producer / Editor - ALEX WOLFE
Alex has made a number of award-winning documentary and narrative works.
Recent television pieces on Latin music include the Emmy-nominated Keeping the Beat, Puerto Rican Soul,
Trovador, and Bachatero!, all for WNET television in New York. His short films Crackerjack,
The Mule, and Precious have shown at many film festivals internationally, including Rotterdam, Cannes (Kodak Prize Showcase),
Vienna, Chicago, Sao Paulo, Havana, Hamburg and Melbourne. They have been broadcast on PBS in the U.S., Canal Plus in France,
Channel Four in Britain, ZDF in Germany, ORF in Austria and SBS Television in Australia. His work has been awarded the Kodak prize,
the grand prize of the Long Island Film Festival, the Mikeldi Prize for Fiction at the Bilbao Film Festival, and the Tisch award
for excellence in screenwriting. He also recently completed Nimbus, a short film portraying the poetry of a tropical storm
in the rain forest. Wolfe worked as a Criminal Defense Investigator in San Francisco and on the California-Mexico border in
the mid-eighties. He received a BA in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Berkeley and an MFA in Film and Television
from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Alex grew up in the mountains of Central Puerto Rico and has worked extensively in Latin America.
Co-writer / Music Supervisor - RICHARD FLEMING
Richard and Alex Wolfe developed Santo Domingo Blues together, and Richard supervised the recording of
the musical performances and the compilation of the soundtrack selections. Richard has worked as a music journalist for ‘Paper’
and ‘Spin’ magazines, and is currently writing a book about Cuba. He also has extensive experience as a sound recordist for
documentaries and musical performances. His focus is on Latin America and the Caribbean, he has worked on such productions as Haiti: Killing of a
Dream and Zones for Slavery, and has recorded many musical performances in Cuba, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic.
Cinematographer - DAVID HOCS
David has extensive network shooting experience for CNN, 20/20, 48 Hours and other television news magazine programs.
He also works as a documentary sound recordist, frequently with Mark Levin on HBO productions. David is also a talented painter, and he was able
to bring both his eye for the poetic moment and his ear for music to the Santo Domingo Blues production.
Cinematographer - ISMAEL RAMIREZ
Ismael is an experienced Director of Photography of features, documentaries, and commercials, and has
collaborated with Alex Wolfe on previous occasions, including the feature Hometown, the documentary Trovador and the short
Precious. He shot the Swiss feature Three Muslim Women, and the 35mm short Are You Cinderella?, which premiered on HBO.
Sound Designer - MICHAEL JONES
Michael is a sound designer and radio producer with broad experience in Latin and African music production,
including David Turnleyís critically acclaimed La Tropical and the upcoming documentary on the Havana Jazz Festival
called Armstrong 2000. Michael has also been the chief engineer and co-producer of Public Radio Internationalís
Afropop Worldwide for the past eight years, as well a frequent segment producer fro WNYCís program Studio 360.
Director / Producer / Editor - ALEX WOLFE
Co-writer / Music Supervisor - RICHARD FLEMING