King Corn

Woolf received a master’s in film at the University of Iowa, but got the bulk of his education working in the field in Lima, Mexico City, Los Angeles, and New York. In 2000, Aaron directed Greener Grass: Cuba, Baseball, and the United States, a WNET-ITVS co-production that received a Rockie Award and aired nationally on PBS. In 2003, Aaron directed Dying to Leave: The Global Face of Human Trafficking and Smuggling, which won an Australian Logie Award and a Rockie nomination, aired on the PBS series Wide Angle, and was presented at the State Department and the United Nations. Aaron is the founder of Mosaic Films Incorporated and an avid mountaineer.

Ian Cheney grew up in Boston and Maine and attended Yale College and the Yale School of Forestry. Prior to starting work on King Corn, Ian worked for a food distribution company and studied food markets in West Africa. Ian and Curt recently collaborated on the short film Two-Buckets. He is currently in production on a documentary about the first residential green building in Boston.

Ellis grew up in Oregon and studied American history at Yale College. Curt has worked in construction and politics, but was assisting on the sets of fast-food commercials when he started work on King Corn. In 2005 he collaborated with Ian Cheney to create the short film Two-Buckets for WGBH, and is currently working on a film about the first residential green building in Boston.