Jon Alpert
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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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Fotos
Filme (41)
Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
2025 · Self, Executive Producer, Director of Photography, Editor
Life of Crime: 1984-2020
2021 · Director, Director of Photography
Finding the Way Home
2019 · Director, Producer, Director of Photography
All For One: Media Enabled Musketeers
2018 · Director, Producer
Cuba and the Cameraman
2017 · Self, Screenplay, Director, Director of Photography
Rock and a Hard Place
2017 · Director
Banking on Bitcoin
2016 · Executive Producer
Mariela Castro's March: Cuba's LGBT Revolution
2016 · Director
The Latin Explosion: A New America
2015 · Director
Redemption
2013 · Director
In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution
2012 · Director
Wartorn: 1861-2010
2010 · Director
No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike
2010 · Director, Director of Photography, Producer
China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
2009 · Director
Dirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana
2008 · Director, Director of Photography, Producer
A Woman Among Boys
2008 · Director
Access Denied?: The Fight for Corporate Accountability
2008 · Director
Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery
2008 · Director, Producer, Director of Photography
Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq
2007 · Director, Producer, Director of Photography
Latin Kings: A Street Gang Story
2007 · Director
Addiction
2007 · Director
Baghdad ER
2006 · Producer, Director
The Last Cowboy
2005 · Director
Bridge to Baghdad
2003 · Director
Bridge to Baghdad II
2003 · Director
Afghanistan: From Ground Zero to Ground Zero
2002 · Director
Papa
2002 · Director, Director of Photography
Life of Crime 2
1998 · Cinematography, Producer, Editor, Director
A Cinderella Season: The Lady Vols Fight Back
1998 · Director
High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell
1995 · Narrator (voice), Writer, Director, Editor
Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island
1994 · Director, Producer
One Year in a Life of Crime
1989 · Self, Director, Producer
The Story of Junkie Junior
1987 · Director, Writer, Cinematography
The Philippines: Life, Death and Revolution
1986 · Director
Hard Metal Disease
1984 · Director
Third Avenue: Only the Strong Survive
1980 · Director
Healthcare: Your Money or Your Life
1978 · Producer
Vietnam: Picking up the Pieces
1978 · Director, Producer
Chinatown: Immigrants in America
1976 · Narrator, Director, Writer, Co-Producer, Cinematography
Cuba: The People
1974 · Narrator, Director, Producer, Writer
The Raging Rabbi
· Director