| Dan Fallshaw | |
| Birth Date: | 1973 3, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Sydney, Australia |
| Birth Name: | Daniel Fallshaw |
| Occupation: | 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]