Director Skye Fitzgerald Explains Why Oscar-Nominated ‘Hunger Ward’ Is a ‘Hopeful Film’
Haley Bosselman editorAcademy Award-nominated documentary “Hunger Ward” paints an intimate portrait of the children in Yemen suffering from starvation and malnourishment as a result of war-induced famine. The United Nations World Food Programme estimates about 400,000 could die this year without urgent intervention, which is what director Skye Fitzerald hopes to catalyze with the film.Overcoming a de facto embargo on journalists and working through an eight-and-a-half month-long process of obtaining visas, Fitzgerald and his team shot nonstop with two cameras for 30 days to capture the harrowing reality in Yemen’s therapeutic feeding centers.