16 Sep 2009
Today is the day we've come all this way for!! In about 7 hours Stolen will have it's international premiere and screen at the Toronto Film Festival.
The press and industry screening went well yesterday and the Sundance channel rep was rivited throughout the screening, intending to only stay for 20 minutes but stayed right to the end.
Tonight is the big one! Wish us luck... It's going to be great.
Posted by Dan Fallshaw 1 Comment
12 Sep 2009
We got back to the hotel exhausted and decided to have an afternoon nap before heading to TIFF opening, we were soooo excited, maybe too excited that we woke up an hour late!!! POOOOOHHHHHHHHHH we missed the red carpet and the opening film!!!
Posted by V Ayala 1 Comment
7 Sep 2009
Dear Kamal Fadel,
I note your request to remove footage of you from the film. We will not do so. This footage was taken of you, speaking in public against the film. You have no right at Law to demand removal of the footage and, given the relentless professional and personal attacks and accusations that you have made against us, we feel under no other duty to you.
Posted by V Ayala 2 Comments
6 Sep 2009
Ursular Aboubacar, Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa at UNHCR, told us and the Australian media in presenting her interview in the film that we manipulated her statements in the most abusive way and took them out of context for our own purposes. She says that never any case of slavery has been brought to the attention of UNHCR. Watch the interview for yourself and see if she had the same opinion in 2007...
Posted by Dan Fallshaw 0 Comment
3 Sep 2009
Greens Senator Hanson-Young is putting questions with notice to the Minister for the Arts about STOLEN. Looks like the Polisario has prepared the questions for her!!!!
Posted by Dan Fallshaw 0 Comment
2 Sep 2009
Asim and I are of the opinion that the practices described in the interviews are consistent with slavery as it is practised in neighbouring Mauritania and that the interviewees are credible...
I have read with much interest the statement issued by the Saharawi Republic, as you know slavery is a sensitive and particularly thorny issue for States. The denials are regrettably a fairly typical response consistent with those of States including Mauritania (in the past), Niger and Sudan. It is also a common practice for states to put pressure on victims to retract their statements.
Posted by Dan Fallshaw 0 Comment
1 Sep 2009
'It is my opinion that the film Stolen portrays a situation of enslavement within the refugee camps of the Western Sahara.'
His book Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and published in ten languages. Desmond Tutu called it “a well researched, scholarly and deeply disturbing expose of modern slavery”.
Posted by V Ayala 0 Comment
31 Aug 2009
Dan and Violeta discovered early in their careers what it took me decades to see: the Left is just as capable of ‘devouring its own babies’ as the Right. Rather than facing the music and moving to right an ancient feudal custom, the Polisario have battened down the hatches and brought on board well intentioned but naïve PC supporters who out of a blind loyalty have done their best to undercut the veracity of Stolen and thus continue the practice of slavery in the refugee camps. This is a classic case of shoot the messengers
Posted by V Ayala 0 Comment
30 Aug 2009
STOLEN is much more than a film about modern slavery: it is a description of the crime that seems to follow humanity until it's end, the crime of ignorance. HUBERT SAUPER (Academy Award Nomination in 2006, the best IDFA documentary of all times)
Posted by V Ayala 0 Comment
30 Aug 2009
YES WE CAN! WE WANT FREEDOM AND PEACE FOR THE BLACK SAHARAWIS!
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Stolen a film by Dan Fallshaw & Violeta Ayala
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