LIFEBOAT has World Premiere at Mountainfilm in Telluride. [1][2], Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject), "#OregonMade Doc, "Lifeboat" Nominated For An Oscar : The Confluence", "Period. https://www.traversecityfilmfest.org/2018-tcff-award-winners/. Inspired by how civil society intervention was saving more lives than the world’s nation-states, Fitzgerald had every reason to join the cause in helping asylum seekers. Bombhunters. The best short films delivered to your inbox. "...emotional and artful...deserves considerable exposure. an infuriating study in the ways that power greases the wheels of justice. LIFEBOAT bears witness to refugees desperate enough to risk their lives in rubber boats leaving Libya in the middle of the night, despite a high probability of drowning. Documentary has thus become a powerful tool for awareness and social change, giving a face and a voice to the otherwise undifferentiated mass of suffering people across the world. Nominated: Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) - 91st Academy Awards Nominated: Best Short - IDA Documentary Awards 2018 Nominated: Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary - 40th News and Documentary Emmy Awards LIFEBOAT: The Experiment. The first of which is 50 Feet from Syria , a film about a Syrian-American doctor, Hisham Bismar, who volunteers his services to victims of the Syrian civil war. 101 Seconds. Skye Fitzgerald's documentary on Search and Rescue off the coast of Libya. Spin Film … ", "...a compelling cinematic and moral statement. Volunteers from a German non-profit risk the waves of the Mediterranean to pluck refugees from sinking rafts pushing off from Libya in the middle of the night. ", a superb example of visual storytelling done well, "...a powerful documentary...a chilling look at what happens in the wake of America fighting for freedom. The crisis has affected children due to the ongoing civil war in Yemen, which the documentary follows closely. Variety and the Flying V logos are trademarks of Variety Media, LLC. Lifeboat is a 2018 documentary short film about North African migrants trying to make it across the Mediterranean Sea safely.. Accolades. Spin Film. The sound of howling wind almost entirely eclipses the first cue of music as volunteers in dust masks retrieve bodies from what appears to be a deflated boat on a beach in the dead of night. Released by The New Yorker, this chilling doc presents the ongoing refugee crisis surrounding North African migrants attempting to make it across the sea without fluffing it up with emotional bouts of unnecessary drama (as if it needed any). LIFEBOAT: The Experiment. Skye Fitzgerald's documentary on Search and Rescue off the coast of Libya. FF poster. Spin Film and Vulcan Productions announced on Wednesday that Oscar-nominated director Skye Fitzgerald is in the last stages of post-production on “Hunger Ward,” a …