Dan Fallshaw

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{{short description|Australian filmmaker}}

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| caption = Fallshaw at Guggenheim Museum 2010

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| birth_place = Sydney, Australia

| birth_name = Daniel Fallshaw

| occupation = Filmmaker, producer, editor, cinematographer

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Dan Fallshaw (born 7 March 1973 in Sydney) is an Australian filmmaker, producer, editor and cinematographer best known for the documentary Stolen (2009),{{Cite news|url=https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117940528?refcatid=31|author=Richard Kuipers|title=Stolen|publisher=Variety|accessdate=21 June 2009|date=11 June 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.{{Cite news|url=https://if.com.au/vindication-for-stolen-filmmakers/|author=Don Groves|title=Vindication for Stolen filmmakers|publisher=IF|accessdate=30 May 2024|date=26 November 2014}}

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.{{Cite news|url=https://www.smh.com.au/business/slick-operator-20060603-gdnocc.html|author=SMH Staff|title=Slick operator|publisher=The Sydney Morning Herald|accessdate=31 May 2024|date=3 June 2006}}

Fallshaw is an alumnus of the Independent Documentary Lab{{cite news|url=http://www.screendaily.com/news/production/film-independents-second-documentary-lab-begins-in-la/5039411.article|author= Elnaz Toussi|title=Film Independent's second Documentary Lab begins in LA|publisher=Screen Daily|accessdate=16 March 2012|date=16 March 2012}} and a Tribeca Film Institute Fellow.{{cite news|url=https://www.indiewire.com/article/tribeca_film_institute_announces_award_winners_and_grantees_for_tribeca_all#.UASAhWb-yYU|author=Indiewire staff|title=TFI Names Winners & Grants for Tribeca All Access & More|publisher=IndieWire|accessdate=28 April 2011|date=28 April 2011}} He won Best Editor at the 2010 Documentary Edge Festival for Stolen.{{Cite news|url=http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1003/S00065.htm|author=Elephant Publicity|title=Documentary Edge Festival 2010 – Awards|publisher=scoop|accessdate=4 March 2010|date=4 March 2010}}

Other accolades include Best Feature Doc at the 2010 Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles,{{cite web |url=http://www.paff.org/film-festival/filmmaker-awards/ |title=Filmmaker Awards – Pan African Film and Arts Festival |publisher=Paff.org |accessdate=5 September 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100722053715/http://www.paff.org/film-festival/filmmaker-awards/ |archivedate=22 July 2010 |df=dmy-all }} Grand Prix at the 2010 Art of the Document Film Festival in Warsaw,{{cite web|url=http://www.artofdocument.pl/2010/index.php?lang=en&page=news|title=FESTIVAL WINNERS 2010 |publisher=artofdocument.pl |date= |accessdate=5 December 2010}} Golden Oosikar Best Doc at the 2010 Anchorage International Film Festival,{{cite web|url=http://www.anchoragefilmfestival.org/2010/film/festival-selections/2010-golden-oosikar-awards/|title=2010 Golden Oosikar Awards|publisher=anchoragefilmfestival.org|accessdate=19 December 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020063435/http://www.anchoragefilmfestival.org/2010/film/festival-selections/2010-golden-oosikar-awards/|archive-date=20 October 2012|url-status=dead}} Best Doc at the 2010 African Film Festival in Nigeria,{{cite web|url=http://www.africafilmfest.com/winner.asp|title=WINNERS 2010|publisher=africafilmfest.com|accessdate=6 December 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707092552/http://www.africafilmfest.com/winner.asp|archive-date=7 July 2011|url-status=dead}} Audience Award at the 2010 Amnesty International Film Festival in Montreal,{{cite web|url=http://van.amnestyfilmfest.ca/audience-award-winners/|title=2010, Audience Award Winners!|publisher=van.amnestyfilmfest.ca|date= |accessdate=25 November 2010}} and Best Film at the 2010 Festival Internacional de Cine de Cuenca in Ecuador.{{cite web|url=http://www.eltiempo.com.ec/noticias-cuenca/54563-stolen-mejor-pela-cula-del-festival-de-cine/|title=Stolen, mejor película del Festival de Cine |publisher=eltiempo.com.ec |date= |accessdate=27 November 2010}}