Finding Face

After finishing up an MFA at the University of Oregon, Skye Fitzgerald directed 2nd Unit on the feature Ricochet River starring Kate Hudson and quickly decided to head into the world of non-fiction film. He has produced or shot nonfiction projects focused on developing nation and human rights issues in 20+ countries. In 2001, Skye co-produced the award-winning feature film Monsoon Wife – the first full-length feature to be shot completely on location in Cambodia since 1965. Other unique projects as a producer or cameraman include the documentary Return to Everest for Eddie Bauer, Dateline on Mt. Rainer for Dateline NBC, Frogpond (pilot) in the Philippines, Epilogue of War documenting landmine and UXO victims in Vietnam, a segment for CNN’s show Mainsail on the Antarctic island of South Georgia as well as segments for the History Channel’s Gangland series and the Weather Channel. In 2004/2005, Fitzgerald was named a Fulbright Scholar to shoot the documentary Bombhunters in Cambodia. The film was subsequently supported by the Sundance Documentary Fund, the United States Institute of Peace, the US Department of State and the Paul Robeson Fund. Having recently completed postproduction on Finding Face, he is currently producing Stockpile, a film about conflict in the Congo. Leveraging a social business model focused on issue impact, Fitzgerald utilizes his production company Spin Film as the catalyst and production platform for films that address burgeoning social issues throughout the world.

Patti Duncan is associate professor of Women’s Studies at Oregon State University, where she specializes in transnational feminist movements, women of color studies, Asian/Asian American women, and intersections of race, gender, class, sexuality, and nation. She received her B.A. from Vassar College, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Emory University. She is the author of Tell This Silence: Asian American Women Writers and the Politics of Speech (Univ. of Iowa Press, 2004), and numerous articles, essays, and reviews. She is a member of several local, national, and international social justice organizations. Dr. Duncan is also a member of APA Compass, a public affairs radio collective on KBOO 90.7 FM, where she produces programming relevant to Asian Pacific American communities. She served as associate producer on the film Bombhunters (by Skye Fitzgerald), and co-producer for Switch: A Community in Transition (by Brooks Nelson).