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person_profile-Jon Alpert

Jon Alpert Age: 77

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Jon Alpert

Date of Birth:

Jan 01, 1948

Country of birth:

USA

Biography of

Jon Alpert

    ​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.

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Filmography of

Jon Alpert

Found 9 Movies in total

Finding the Way Home

Director Of Photography

... 2019

Banking on Bitcoin

Executive Producer

... 2016

... 2008

... 2008

Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq

Director Of Photography

... 2007

Baghdad ER

Director

... 2006

Life of Crime 2

Cinematography

... 1998

... 1994

One Year in a Life of Crime

Self ( Actor )

Director

... 1989