Skye Fitzgerald

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Skye Fitzgerald (born April 4, 1970 ) is an American filmmaker and documentary filmmaker from Happy Valley in Oregon .

Life

Fitzgerald grew up in a rustic environment in eastern Oregon. From the age of 13 he lived with his parents in his youth without electricity or running water. He studied drama at Eastern Oregon University to become a theater director. After graduating with a bachelor's degree, he studied at the University of Oregon and came to television through a television directing course. He graduated with a Master of Fine Art in Theater . He became a cameraman for television documentaries. He co-produced a film about the teenage sex trafficking in Cambodia and thus came into contact with the Asian country. Fitzgerald worked inter alia as a video production teacher at Gervais High School .

He founded his production company Spin Film in 2004.

In 2006 he received a Fulbright Research Scholar Fellowship and was able to create his first documentary, Bombhunters , which looked at duds and their traumatic effects on the Cambodian population.

Fitzgerald is married to Patti Duncan, a professor of women's studies at Oregon State University . Together with her he made the documentary Finding Face , released in 2009 , which portrays a Cambodian youth whose face has been disfigured by an acid attack.

In 2015, 50 Feet from Syria was the first part of a planned documentary film trilogy made by an identical team of volunteers. In 50 Feet from Syria , the Syrian-American doctor Hisham Bismar is the focus of his volunteer work in a Turkish hospital near the Syrian border, where he helps war victims.

The second part of the planned documentary trilogy is the Oscar-nominated short film Lifeboat , released in 2018, about a Sea-Watch crew during a refugee rescue operation in the Mediterranean in 2016.

Awards

His documentary Finding Face won the Best Documentary Award at the San Diego Asian Film Festival .

At the DOXA Documentary Film Festival , his short documentary film 50 feet from Syria won the award for the best short documentary film.

For his documentary Lifeboat , Fitzgerald was nominated together with Bryn Mooser for an Oscar in the category “ Best Documentary Short Film ” in 2019 . The film has already won short film awards at the BendFilm Festival , the Crested Butte Film Festival , the Telluride Mountain Film Festival , the Woodstock Film Festival and was commended at the Traverse City Film Festival .

Filmography

Director

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Sarah Larson: The Screening Room: "Lifeboat". In: The New Yorker. January 8, 2019, accessed January 23, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Bill Graves: Oregon liberal arts graduates create own careers. In: The Oregonian. March 28, 2012, accessed January 25, 2019 .
  3. ↑ https://www.spinfilm.org/
  4. ↑ https://www.50feetfromsyria.com
personal data
SURNAME Fitzgerald, Skye
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American filmmaker and documentary filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH April 4th 1970