Wolfgang Busch

Wolfgang Busch
Wolfgang Busch
Occupation(s)	Filmmaker, director, producer

Wolfgang Busch (born November 6, 1955, in Heppenheim, Germany) is a multiple-award-winning documentary filmmaker, director, producer, cinematographer and editor. He was inducted into the Queens Business Hall of Fame for his company Art From The Heart Films for "Best LGBT Business" and into the LGBT Music Hall of Fame. For his social and artistic activism for the Black and Hispanic LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) Ballroom community, aka Harlem Drag Ball community, Wolfgang received a Humanitarian award for his documentary How Do I Look, and the "Keep The Dream Alive" Martin Luther King Humanitarian award from the straight Black community.

He is an influencer, entrepreneur, grass-root organizer, special events producer, motivator, inspirational and touches people's life from all walks of life. His Documentary How Do I Look is screened worldwide and is used by University students for thesis. He lectures about Artistic Empowerment and HIV/AIDS awareness at prestigious universities, Yale, NYU, Penn State, not for profit organizations, The Door, Hetrick Martin Institute, Fierce, the Gay Men's Health Crisis, the LGBT Community Center in New York City & Chicago, and in Churches in New York City & San Francisco; and internationally in London, Amsterdam, Paris and Berlin.

After filming the ballroom community from 1995 until 2006,^[1] Busch released in 2006 his first feature-length documentary How Do I Look, which is about the Harlem house ball community, also known as Ballroom, the originators of the dance "Vogue" (see also ball culture). Wolfgang's second release in 2911 was [Flow Affair; *http://www.FlowAffair.weebly.com], which is about the New York City and San Francisco flagging and fanning dance community with the origin in the gay leather bars in the late 1970s in New York City.