‘Hunger Ward’ Director Skye Fitzgerald On How He And His Crew Got “Really Small” To Document Yemen’s “Invisible War” – Contenders Film: The Nominees
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“There was only ever going to be one way we were going to be able to shoot this film, and that was by being really, really small,” the director said during a session at Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees awards-season event. That meant no boom operator or other typical crew; just Fitzgerald and his director of photography, Jeffrey Ball, shooting continuously.
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The resulting MTV Documentary Films release, which is nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary – Short Subject, captures what Fitzgerald calls the “invisible war” in Yemen. Due to years of civil conflict and the blocking of aid shipments from being delivered (as Saudi Arabia, with support from the U.S. and other Western powers, continues to conduct air strikes blamed for civilian deaths), Yemeni children are starving. The United Nations calls the crisis the most urgent in the world, saying 2.3 million children are projected to face acute malnutrition this year, with 400,000 likely to die without intervention.