Skye Borgman is an American film director and

cinematographer The cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the person responsible for the recording of a film, television production, music video or other live-action piece. The cinematographer is the chief of the camera ...

. She is best known for her work on the documentary film ''

Abducted in Plain Sight ''Abducted in Plain Sight'', also known as ''Forever B'', is a 2017 true crime documentary film directed by Skye Borgman. The documentary covers the kidnappings of Jan Broberg, an Idaho child who was abducted by her neighbor Robert Berchtold in th ...

''.

Life and career

Skye was born in

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. She was graduated from the

Cornish College of the Arts Cornish College of the Arts (CCA) was a Private college, private art school, art college in Seattle, Washington. It was founded in 1914 by music teacher Nellie Cornish. The college's main campus is in the Denny Triangle, Seattle, Denny Triangle ...

and

University of Southern California The University of Southern California (USC, SC, or Southern Cal) is a Private university, private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney, it is the oldest private research university in ...

. She is a professor at the

. Skye's debut documentary film ''Junk Dreams'', won the Best Documentary Award at the

Bare Bones International Film Festival The Bare Bones International Film and Music Festival was founded in 1999 by the Darkwood Film Arts Institute in the city of Muskogee, Oklahoma, United States to showcase independent motion picture projects with budgets of less than 1 million dolla ...

and Accolade Award of Excellence. In 2017, she premiered

, also known as ''Forever B'' and produced by Top Knot Films, at the

Mammoth Lakes Film Festival The Mammoth Lakes Film Festival is a five-day film festival that screens independent features and shorts in Mammoth Lakes, California, a mountain resort town in the Eastern Sierra. The festival, founded by Shira Dubrovner in 2015 with Paul Sbr ...

, and the film was released by

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in 2019. It also won the award for Best Documentary film at the

Newport Beach Film Festival The Newport Beach Film Festival (NBFF) is an annual film festival in Newport Beach, California, typically held in late April. In 2022, it was announced that the festival had permanently changed its date to be held in October, as the festival bega ...

and

Phoenix Film Festival Phoenix Film Festival is a festival that celebrates feature films, documentaries, short films and their creators. Started in 2001, the annual celebration takes place in the city of Phoenix, Arizona. The Festival is run under the umbrella of the 5 ...

Filmography

As cinematographer

* 2003 - ''Unsyncables at Any Age'' * 2007 - ''Schooled'' * 2007 - ''The Cellar Door'' * 2007 - ''Underbelly'' * 2008 - ''Raices torcidas'' * 2008 - ''Fear House'' * 2008 - ''Outrighteous'' * 2010 - ''Junk Dreams'' * 2010 - ''The Pathetically Cheap Adventures of Xtra-Man'' * 2012 - ''Nothing Like Chocolate'' * 2013 - ''The Resurrection of Malchus'' * 2014 - ''Quiet Riot'' * 2015 - ''Kevin Memorie'' * 2015 - ''How Randy Rhoads Met Ozzy '' * 2015 - ''Bondage'' * 2017 - ''

'' * 2018 - ''We Are Galapagos''

Awards and nominations

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Borgman, Skye Living people American women film directors American cinematographers American women cinematographers Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women