Slavery man-to-man is the saddest thing in the world.
NEW!! Comprehensive STUDY GUIDE now available Stolen is an excellent addition to any classroom and ideal for courses on: Human Rights, African Studies, Social Justice, Global Solidarity, Slavery, Liberation Slavery, Journalism, Race Studies, Political Science, Directing Film, Producing Film, International Law, North African Studies, Migration Studies, Globalisation, Indigenous Rights, Pan-African Studies, Africana Studies, Global Studies, Slavery […]
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Premieres February 5th on WORLD Channel. In this family reunion documentary turned international political thriller a pair of journalists discover the existence of slavery in a refugee camp. In their journey to tell a story of modern day slavery they themselves become the story. Directed by Violeta Ayala and Dan Fallshaw. Stolen – Trailer Producer: […]
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The story begins with Fetim, a black Saharawi who was taken from her mother as a toddler by Deido, a ‘white-Arab’ woman. Thirty years later Fetim is reunited with her mother through a UN family reunion program.The reunion sparks a revolution amongst the black Saharawis who speak out against being slaves. Black children are taken […]
VIOLETA AYALA (Writer/Director/Producer) Violeta is an artist, writer and film director born in Bolivia. She studied Theatre and Journalism at Charles Sturt University in Australia, where her curiosity in filmmaking began and she made PROYECTO VILA-VILA a short film about the effects of cervical cancer on indigenous women in Bolivia. In 2006 Violeta began her […]
How did slavery surface while you were making the film? It was on our third trip to the camps and we’d been living with Fetim and her family for more than a week. Once we’d settled in, Fetim’s daughter started to talk about slavery in the camps. It was then that things started to make […]
