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  • BIRTH 01/01/1948
  • Country United States
  • MOVIE 1
  • DIRECTOR 9
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  • PRODUCTION 4

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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Jon Alpert

Movie

Cuba and the Cameraman
Cuba and the Cameraman
Self

Director (9)

Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island
Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island
Redemption
Redemption
Wartorn: 1861-2010
Wartorn: 1861-2010
Baghdad ER
Baghdad ER
Mariela Castro's March: Cuba's LGBT Revolution
Mariela Castro's March: Cuba's LGBT…
Rock and a Hard Place
Rock and a Hard Place
Cuba and the Cameraman
Cuba and the Cameraman
Life of Crime: 1984-2020
Life of Crime: 1984-2020
No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike
No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro…

Script

Cuba and the Cameraman
Cuba and the Cameraman

Production (4)

Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island
Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island
Banking on Bitcoin
Banking on Bitcoin
No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike
No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro…
Baghdad ER
Baghdad ER