Jon Alpert
Directing
Born 1948-01-01
Port Chester, New York, USA
42 credits
Awards
Nominated for 2 Academy Awards
Academy Awards 2 nominated
- 2013 Best Documentary (Short Subject) Nominated Redemption
- 2010 Best Documentary (Short Subject) Nominated China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
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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
Directing
35 credits
The Latin Explosion: A New America
Redemption
The Story of Junkie Junior
Papa
Rock and a Hard Place
Wartorn: 1861-2010
Life of Crime: 1984-2020
A Cinderella Season: The Lady Vols Fight Back
China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery
Cuba: The People
Mariela Castro's March: Cuba's LGBT Revolution
Dirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana
The Philippines: Life, Death and Revolution
Baghdad ER
Latin Kings: A Street Gang Story
One Year in a Life of Crime
Access Denied?: The Fight for Corporate Accountability
Afghanistan: From Ground Zero to Ground Zero
Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq
Addiction
A Woman Among Boys
Hard Metal Disease
The Raging Rabbi
Chinatown: Immigrants in America
Bridge to Baghdad
Vietnam: Picking up the Pieces
Bridge to Baghdad II
The Last Cowboy
Finding the Way Home
Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island
In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution
Third Avenue: Only the Strong Survive
No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike
All For One: Media Enabled Musketeers
Producing
11 credits
Banking on Bitcoin
Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery
Life of Crime 2
Baghdad ER
Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq
Healthcare: Your Money or Your Life
Vietnam: Picking up the Pieces
Finding the Way Home
Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island
All For One: Media Enabled Musketeers
Acting
7 credits
Cuba and the Cameraman
Cuba: The People
Life of Crime 2
One Year in a Life of Crime
Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell
Chinatown: Immigrants in America
Other credits
5 credits
Open Space
Papa
Life of Crime: 1984-2020
Dirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana
No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike
Writing
3 credits
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