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Jon Alpert
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- Born
- Jan 1, 1948
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- Port Chester, New York, USA
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. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jon Alpert, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Cuba and the Cameraman

Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud

High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell

One Year in a Life of Crime

All For One: Media Enabled Musketeers

Cuba: The People

Chinatown: Immigrants in America
Open Space

The Philippines: Life, Death and Revolution

Wartorn: 1861-2010

Life of Crime 2

Redemption

Life of Crime: 1984-2020

No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike

Baghdad ER

A Cinderella Season: The Lady Vols Fight Back

Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq

The Latin Explosion: A New America