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| Directed by | Violeta Ayala Dan Fallshaw |
| Produced by | Tom Zubrycki Violeta Ayala Dan Fallshaw Deborah Dickson |
| Written by | Violeta Ayala and Dan Fallshaw |
| Cinematography | Dan Fallshaw and Violeta Ayala |
| Editing by | Dan Fallshaw |
| Release date(s) | June 11, 2009 (Sydney) |
| Running time | 78 minutes |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | Spanish, Hassaniya, English |
Stolen is a 2009 Australian documentary film that uncovers slavery in the Polisario Refugee Camps and the Moroccan controlled Western Sahara, written and directed by Violeta Ayala and Dan Fallshaw. It had its world premiere at the 2009 Sydney Film Festival,[1] where a controversy started after one of the participants in the documentary was flown to Australia by the Polisario Liberation Front to say she wasn't a slave. The Polisario, avowing that it doesn’t condone slavery and needing to safeguard its image on the world stage to support its independence fight, began an international campaign against the film. It put out its own video denouncing Stolen, in which several people who Ayala and Fallshaw interviewed say they were coerced or paid by the Australian duo.[2]
Stolen has screened in more than 70 prestigious film festivals worldwide including 2009 Toronto International Film Festival, IDFA, Seattle IFF, Glasgow Film Festival, MIFF, One World Film Festival, Docaviv, It's All True, Singapore IFF, Cleveland IFF, Norwegian Short Film Festival, Frontline Club Liberation Season, and Amnesty International Film Festival.