Directing
Jon Alpert
EN cinema · 41 credits
Born
1 January 1948 (age 78)
Birthplace
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.
Known for
Filmography
Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
as Self, Executive Producer, Director of Photography, Editor
Life of Crime: 1984-2020
Director, Director of Photography
Finding the Way Home
Director, Producer, Director of Photography
All For One: Media Enabled Musketeers
Actor, Director, Producer
Cuba and the Cameraman
as Self, Screenplay, Director, Director of Photography
Banking on Bitcoin
Executive Producer
Redemption
Director
Wartorn: 1861-2010
Director
No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike
Director, Director of Photography, Producer
Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery
Director, Producer, Director of Photography
Dirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana
Director, Director of Photography, Producer
Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq
Director, Producer, Director of Photography
Addiction
Director
Baghdad ER
Producer, Director
Papa
Director, Director of Photography
Life of Crime 2
Cinematography, Producer, Editor, Director
High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell
as Narrator (voice), Writer, Director, Editor
Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island
Director, Producer
One Year in a Life of Crime
as Self, Director, Producer
The Story of Junkie Junior
Director, Writer, Cinematography
Vietnam: Picking up the Pieces
Director, Producer
Chinatown: Immigrants in America
as Narrator, Director, Writer, Co-Producer, Cinematography
Cuba: The People
as Narrator, Director, Producer, Writer