Blackbeard Films

10/19/2015

Finally!! Our film for People & Power, Outcast: Adrift w/ Burma's Rohingya, is now viewable in the US. http://bit.ly/1uAgvoC

Persecuted Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar face a dangerous journey on their way to freedom in Thailand and Malaysia.

05/26/2015

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05/26/2015

http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2015/5/186011-putting-the-data-science-into-journalism/fulltext

News organizations increasingly use techniques like data mining, Web scraping, and data visualization to uncover information that would be impossible to identify and present manually.

04/08/2015

Here's the FB version of our newest AJ+ piece on the Nicaragua Interoceanic Canal that's underway. Al Jazeera America is also rolling out a weeklong series of articles on the topic for those of you that would like to find out more. Go to: http://projects.aljazeera.com/2015/04/nicaragua-canal/

04/06/2015

"Splitting Nicaragua" - our newest piece for AJ+.

The proposed Nicaragua Canal could be one of the largest engineering projects in history and promises to bring thousands of jobs to the...

03/04/2015

We spent last week in investigating this project. Here's a great write-up in Vox to help explain .. Stay tuned and we'll take it further.

http://www.vox.com/2015/2/26/8114151/nicaragua-canal

Nicaragua has enlisted a mysterious Chinese billionaire to dig a canal bigger than Panama's. What could go wrong?

02/05/2015

STOP what you are doing and take a few minutes to watch the most recent piece reported by Blackbeard's own Jason Motlagh for AJ+. Enter the strange dark heart of Oakland and feast your senses on HOODSLAM. Curious locals can check it out for themselves at the live event tomorrow night - details at: birdswillfall.com

02/03/2015

Cool! Our recent investigation into Bangladesh's toxic leather industry just got picked up by Al Jazeera America.

Bangladeshi leather exports a billion dollar business, but local workers are paying the price with their health

01/09/2015

Watch our newest America Tonight piece that aired last night! "The Black Hole of Ma*****na Research"

Many can buy pot in any form or potency, but federal regulations make any research into the drug nearly impossible

01/08/2015

Tune in tonight at 6pm and 9pm Pacific Time on Al Jazeera America's America Tonight to watch our newest piece "The Black Hole of Ma*****na Science".

The new realities of legalized ma*****na in Colorado. In the first year, business is thriving and the state is earning millions but is the grass really green...

12/17/2014

Here's our latest AJ+ doc on the winners and losers of Colorado's pot boom. Big thanks to Emily Bodenberg, Vanessa Carr, Paul Donatelli and Andréa Schmidt for making this happen. Blackbeard Films

Colorado voted to legalize recreational ma*****na in 2012, and became the first U.S. state to start selling it in January of 2014. The industry is booming, b...

10/17/2014

Monks peacefully protesting land grabbing of copper mines in Letpadaung were attacked by police wielding white phosphorous grenades, the use of which is considered an international war crime. Here is a look at the damage they created.