Dan Fallshaw | |
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 Fallshaw at Guggenheim Museum 2010 | |
| Born | Daniel Fallshaw 7 March 1973 Sydney, Australia |
| Occupation(s) | Filmmaker, producer, editor, cinematographer |
Dan Fallshaw (born 7 March 1973 in Sydney) is an Australian filmmaker, producer, editor and cinematographer best known for the documentary Stolen (2009), [1] that uncovers slavery in the Sahrawi refugee camps in south-western Algeria and in Western Sahara. The film, which was co-directed with Violeta Ayala, premiered at the Sydney Film Festival in 2009 and screened internationally at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film was broadcast on PBS in 2013. [2]
In 2006 Fallshaw began his collaboration with Ayala on Between the oil and the deep blue sea, a documentary set in Mauritania, about corruption in the oil industry, that follows the investigations of mathematician Yahyia Ould Hamidoune against Woodside Petroleum. [3]
Fallshaw is an alumnus of the Independent Documentary Lab [4] and a Tribeca Film Institute Fellow. [5] He won Best Editor at the 2010 Documentary Edge Festival for Stolen. [6]
Other accolades include Best Feature Doc at the 2010 Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles, [7] Grand Prix at the 2010 Art of the Document Film Festival in Warsaw, [8] Golden Oosikar Best Doc at the 2010 Anchorage International Film Festival, [9] Best Doc at the 2010 African Film Festival in Nigeria, [10] Audience Award at the 2010 Amnesty International Film Festival in Montreal, [11] and Best Film at the 2010 Festival Internacional de Cine de Cuenca in Ecuador. [12]
