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Jon Alpert

Jon Alpert

Known For Directing
Birthday Jan 01, 1948 (77)
Birthplace Port Chester, New York, USA
Popularity 1 (history)
Updated Aug 05, 2024 (Update)
Entry Date Apr 13, 2024
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Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. Alp ... ert 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jon Alpert, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Filmography

Life of Crime: 1984-2020

Life of Crime: 1984-2020

2021

Director of Photography

Finding the Way Home

Finding the Way Home

2019

Director of Photography

Cuba and the Cameraman

Cuba and the Cameraman

2017

Screenplay, Director of Photography

Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery

Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery

2008

Director of Photography

Dirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana

Dirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana

2008

Director of Photography

Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq

Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq

2007

Director of Photography

Papa

Papa

2002

Director of Photography

Life of Crime 2

Life of Crime 2

1998

Cinematography, Editor

Organization Category Movie
Television Credits

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