Skye Fitzgerald’s experience making films about human rights issues in the Middle East prepared him for one practical aspect of making Hunger Ward.
“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…
EXCLUSIVE: A wider audience is about to get the chance to see director Skye Fitzgerald's Hunger Ward, the Oscar-nominated short film from MTV Documentary Films.
The film, an unsparing look at the suffering of children in Yemen who have been reduced to starvation during the country's civil war, will premiere on the…
EXCLUSIVE: The brutal civil war in Yemen has become a proxy fight between Saudi Arabia and Iran, each regional power backing rival forces in the contest for control over the Middle Eastern country. As always in war, those who suffer the worst are innocent civilians.
Skye Fitzgerald's Hunger Ward, the Oscar-shortlisted…
EXCLUSIVE: MTV Documentary Films is adding Skye Fitzgerald's Hunger Ward to its portfolio of Oscar-contending films.
The MTV division led by Sheila Nevins announced Tuesday it has acquired the short film, a devastating look at children suffering starvation in Yemen as a direct result of war in the Middle Eastern…
Abeer, one of the main subjects of Skye Fitzgerald's short documentary Hunger Ward, is as pretty as a fairytale princess, with eloquent brown eyes and a smile—when it appears—to melt the heart.
But the conditions of Abeer's life, far from storybook, are those of cruel reality. She is one of an estimated two million…