A Portland Documentarian is up for an Academy Award with the Short Lifeboat
Skye Fitzgerald, whose documentary short Lifeboat has been nominated for an Academy Award, never set out for fame. The director grew up in rural Monument, Ore., without electricity or running water, earned an MFA at the University of Oregon and embarked on a career making films that highlight social injustice around the globe. His latest Oscar-contending movie depicts efforts to save desperate migrants from drowning off the coast of Libya.