LA GRANDE â Award-winning documentary filmmaker Skye Fitzgerald, a 1993 graduate of Eastern Oregon University, is a risk taker. The premium Fitzgerald paid for kidnap insurance in 2020 is harrowing proof.
Fitzgerald purchased the insurance policy prior to filming âHunger Ward,â a 40-minute work that documents the effects the war and famine in Yemen is having on children, families and health care workers. He shot the film over 30 days in January and February 2020 in northern and southern Yemen, a west Asian nation devastated by war between Saudi-backed pro-government forces and the rebel Houthi movement.
Fitzgerald, a two-time Academy Award nominee, said he never forgot he was in peril throughout his time in Yemen.
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