Talent Guide

Daniel Fallshaw

  • Discipline:Producer
  • Program Year:Documentary Lab 2012

Bio

Daniel Fallshaw is a filmmaker, producer, editor and cinematographer best known for the highly controversial documentary Stolen (2009) that uncovers slavery in the Sahrawi refugee camps in North Africa.

In 2006, Fallshaw began his collaboration with Violeta 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 world renowned mathematician Dr. Yahyia Ould Hamidoune against Woodside Petroleum.

Fallshaw has lived in London, Munich and Rome. He has an honors degree in Visual Communications from the University of Technology, Sydney and Saint Martin’s College in London.

He is an alumnus of the Film Independent Documentary Lab, and a Tribeca Film Institute Fellow. Fallshaw won Best Editor at the 2010 Documentary Edge Festival for Stolen. Fallshaw is currently producing two films: The Bolivian Case and Cocaine Prison. Cocaine Prison is due for release in cinemas in France in 2013.

Current Project

Cocaine Prison (Documentary Feature)

Logline

From inside Bolivia's craziest prison a cocaine worker, a drug mule and his little sister reveal the countries relationship with cocaine.