Australian filmmaker
| Dan Fallshaw | |
|---|---|
 Fallshaw at Guggenheim Museum 2010 | |
| Born | Daniel Fallshaw (1973-03-07) 7 March 1973 (age 51) 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), 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.
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.
Fallshaw is an alumnus of the Independent Documentary Lab and a Tribeca Film Institute Fellow. He won Best Editor at the 2010 Documentary Edge Festival for Stolen.
Other accolades include Best Feature Doc at the 2010 Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles, Grand Prix at the 2010 Art of the Document Film Festival in Warsaw, Golden Oosikar Best Doc at the 2010 Anchorage International Film Festival, Best Doc at the 2010 African Film Festival in Nigeria, Audience Award at the 2010 Amnesty International Film Festival in Montreal, and Best Film at the 2010 Festival Internacional de Cine de Cuenca in Ecuador.
References
- Richard Kuipers (11 June 2009). "Stolen". Variety. Retrieved 21 June 2009.
- Don Groves (26 November 2014). "Vindication for Stolen filmmakers". IF. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
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- Elnaz Toussi (16 March 2012). "Film Independent's second Documentary Lab begins in LA". Screen Daily. Retrieved 16 March 2012.
- Indiewire staff (28 April 2011). "TFI Names Winners & Grants for Tribeca All Access & More". IndieWire. Retrieved 28 April 2011.
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- "Filmmaker Awards – Pan African Film and Arts Festival". Paff.org. Archived from the original on 22 July 2010. Retrieved 5 September 2010.
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- "2010 Golden Oosikar Awards". anchoragefilmfestival.org. Archived from the original on 20 October 2012. Retrieved 19 December 2010.
- "WINNERS 2010". africafilmfest.com. Archived from the original on 7 July 2011. Retrieved 6 December 2010.
- "2010, Audience Award Winners!". van.amnestyfilmfest.ca. Retrieved 25 November 2010.
- "Stolen, mejor película del Festival de Cine". eltiempo.com.ec. Retrieved 27 November 2010.