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Jon Alpert (born c. 1948) is an American journalist and documentary filmmaker, known for his use of a cinéma vérité approach in his films. A native of Port Chester, New York, Alpert is a 1970 graduate of Colgate University, and has a black belt in karate.
Alpert has traveled widely as an investigative journalist, and has made films for NBC, PBS, and HBO. Over the course of his career, he has won 15 Emmy Awards and three DuPont-Columbia Awards. He has been nominated for a 2010 Academy Award in the category of Best Documentary, Short Subject for China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province. He has reported from Vietnam, Cambodia, Iran, Nicaragua, the Philippines, Cuba, China, and Afghanistan.
In 1972, Alpert and his wife, Keiko Tsuno, founded the Downtown Community Television Center, one of the country's first community media centers. He has interviewed Fidel Castro several times, and was one of the few Western journalists to have conducted a videotaped interview with Saddam Hussein since the Persian Gulf War.
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Filmography
all 35
Movies 34
Director 22
Producer 7
self 4
TV Shows 1
Life of Crime: 1984-2020 (2021)
Covid Diaries NYC (2021)
Finding the Way Home (2019)
All For One: Media Enabled Musketeers (2018)
Cuba and the Cameraman (2017)
Rock and a Hard Place (2017)
Banking on Bitcoin (2016)
Mariela Castro's March: Cuba's LGBT Revolution (2016)
The Latin Explosion: A New America (2015)
James Gandolfini: Tribute to a Friend (2013)
Redemption (2013)
In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution (2012)
Wartorn: 1861-2010 (2010)
No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike (2010)
The Spirit of Salsa (2010)
China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province (2009)
Dirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana (2008)
Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery (2008)
Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq (2007)
Latin Kings: A Street Gang Story (2007)
Addiction (2007)
Baghdad ER (2006)
House Arrest Starring Chris Colombo: A Docu-Comedy Based On Reality (2005)
Papa (2002)
Life of Crime 2 (1998)
A Cinderella Season: The Lady Vols Fight Back (1998)
High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell (1995)
Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island (1994)
One Year in a Life of Crime (1989)
The Story of Junkie Junior (1987)
The Philippines: Life, Death and Revolution (1986)
Third Avenue: Only the Strong Survive (1980)
The David Letterman Show (1980)
Healthcare: Your Money or Your Life (1978)
Cuba: The People, Part I (1974)
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GenderMale
Birthday1948-01-01 (76 years old)
Birth PlaceUnited States of America, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
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