Jon Alpert
Born: 1948-01-01 in Port Chester, New York, USA
Known For: Directing
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. 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.
Filmography
2025
- Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud ... (Executive Producer)
2021
- Life of Crime: 1984-2020 ... (Director)
2019
- Finding the Way Home ... (Producer)
2018
- All For One: Media Enabled Musketeers ... (Director)
2017
- Cuba and the Cameraman as Self
- Rock and a Hard Place ... (Director)
2016
- Banking on Bitcoin ... (Executive Producer)
- Mariela Castro's March: Cuba's LGBT Revolution ... (Director)
2015
- The Latin Explosion: A New America ... (Director)
2013
- Redemption ... (Director)
2012
- In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution ... (Director)
2010
- Wartorn: 1861-2010 ... (Director)
- No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike ... (Director)
2009
- China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province ... (Director)
2008
- Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery ... (Director)
- A Woman Among Boys ... (Director)
- Dirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana ... (Director)
- Access Denied?: The Fight for Corporate Accountability ... (Director)
2007
- Addiction ... (Director)
- Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq ... (Director)
- Latin Kings: A Street Gang Story ... (Director)
2006
- Baghdad ER ... (Producer)
2005
- The Last Cowboy ... (Director)
2003
- Bridge to Baghdad ... (Director)
- Bridge to Baghdad II ... (Director)
2002
- Papa ... (Director)
- Afghanistan: From Ground Zero to Ground Zero ... (Director)
1998
- Life of Crime 2 ... (Cinematography)
- A Cinderella Season: The Lady Vols Fight Back ... (Director)
1995
- High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell as Narrator (voice)
1994
- Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island ... (Producer)
1989
- One Year in a Life of Crime as Self
1987
- The Story of Junkie Junior ... (Director)
1986
- The Philippines: Life, Death and Revolution ... (Director)
1984
- Hard Metal Disease ... (Director)
1980
- Third Avenue: Only the Strong Survive ... (Director)
1978
- Healthcare: Your Money or Your Life ... (Producer)
1976
- Chinatown: Immigrants in America ... (Director)
1974
- Cuba: The People, Part I as Narator