DAVID BOYLE
JOURNALIST & FILMMAKER
About
Since 2010 I've worked as a journalist and filmmaker in Asia, producing documentary, print, web, radio and TV news coverage for many of the world's leading news organisations (see clients below). I've produced award-winning coverage on a raft of topics including human rights abuses, modern day slavery, corruption, labour exploitation and environmental crimes.
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I started my career as a video editor and have maintained a passion for learning and applying creative technologies to journalism. But first and foremost I'm a content focused journalist, having cut my teeth as an investigative print reporter in Cambodia before moving fulltime into documentary film production. I currently work for Al Jazeera's flagship Asia Pacific news and current affairs programme 101 East.
Clients/Publishers...
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Documentaries
Forced to Scam:
Cambodia's Cyber Slaves
101 East investigates human trafficking and enslavement by Chinese cyber scam operations in Cambodia and their links to the government and elite.
Thailand's Fearless Cop
101 East investigates allegations that powerful political figures in Thailand sabotaged a landmark human trafficking case
Myanmar: State of Fear
101 East uncovers a secret interrogation centre in Myanmar and investigates Western companies that have sold surveillance technology to the country.
Australia's China Dream
101 East investigates why the relationship between Australia and China has hit rock bottom and meets the individuals paying the price.
Young, Black and Behind Bars
Indigenous Western Australians are arguably the most jailed people in the world. 101East visits the state’s prisons and police to meet those on the frontlines of an incarceration crisis.
Thailand's Last Resort
101 East asks why more and more families from Europe, UK and Australia are sending their elderly to care homes in Thailand to live out their dying days
Cambodia's Casino Gamble
101 East investigates the growing criminal underbelly of a new Chinese casino empire in Cambodia.
Plundering Cambodia's Forests
They’re some of the last remaining evergreen forests on the Indochina peninsula. But they’re being plundered by private companies and timber tycoons. 101East investigates deforestation in Cambodia:
Thailand's Rebel Artists
101 East meets Thailand’s artists who are fighting back against censorship and military rule.
Print journalism
Selected stories
Logging in the wild west
A field investigation uncovers a vast, military-run illegal logging operation worth millions inside a protected forest as those tasked with guarding the area watch on.
Giving more than 100%
Analysis of leaked population data reveals widespread over registration of voters ahead of the 2013 election raising serious questions about potential rigging of the ballot.
Never ending cycle:
The human cost of slave labour
Travelling across Cambodia, we uncover a sickening crime in which the families of slave labourers are extorted out of everything they own just to get their loved ones back.
Kratie cut to shreds
They're brazen, ruthless and consider themselves untouchable. With no one to stop them, Cambodia's timber barons are wiping entire protected areas off the map.
Maid firm exposed
Reporters expose a labour recruitment firm crammed with underage trainees held against their will in a story that directly preceded the closure of the industry.
Render unto the CPP
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They are supposed to follow the "the middle way" and stay out of politics. But as the moral nucleus of almost every Cambodian village, monks hold coveted political capital and are tightly controlled by the CPP.
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Single Operator Video journalism
Selected videos
Cambodian Virtual Reality Helps Train Bomb-disposal Techs
VR and AR apps developed in Phnom Penh teleport trainee bomb disposal techs into high-stress real wolrd scenarios where they can learn rapid risk assessment safely.
Interactives/multimedia
Short web docs
News packages
Interviews
Commercial videos
Selected videos
More commercial videos
The examples above are intended to represent the variation in the commercial projects I've worked on recently. In the past decade I've worked on scores of corporate videos, initially as an editor with the production company Kine Grafitti but more recently as an independent freelancer based in Asia - often collaborating with other filmmakers in the region. If you're interested in learning more about my commercial work and the people I collaborate with, please contact me via the form below.
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