WORLD PREMIERE
MOUNTAINFILM COMMITMENT GRANT AWARD WINNER
“Another tragedy in the Mediterranean,” a newscaster reports after a flimsy boat carrying 600 migrants sinks in the dangerous central Mediterranean crossing between Libya and Italy. Masked men wearing gloves pull back huge white tarps covering some of the victims. Skye Fitzgerald’s Lifeboat, a 2017 Mountainfilm Commitment Grantee, goes on to chronicle a successful rescue by the German nonprofit Sea-Watch. "Libya is hell," says a survivor. Conditions in Libya offered “two options: Life or death,” says Aisha. She beat the odds, many others did not.