Jon Alpert
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Jon Alpert (b. ca. 1949) is an American reporter and documentary filmmaker. He is a native of Port Chester, New York.
Alpert has traveled widely as an investigative reporter 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 reported from Vietnam, Cambodia, Iran, Nicaragua, the Philippines, Cuba, and Afghanistan.
In 1972, with his wife, Keiko Tsuno, he founded the Downtown Community Television Center, one of the country's first community media centers. He has interviewed Fidel Castro several times,[1] and is one of the only Western journalists to have conducted a videotaped interview with Saddam Hussein since the First Gulf War.[2]
He is a 1970 graduate of Colgate University and has a black belt in karate.
[edit] Films
- 1989 - One Year in A Life of Crime (Director/Producer)
- 1991 - Rape Cries from the Heartland (Executive Producer)
- 1995 - Lock-up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island
- 1998 - Life of Crime 2
- 1998 - A Cinderella Season: The Lady Vols Fight Back
- 2002 - To Have and Have Not (Director)
- 2002 - Afghanistan: From Ground Zero to Ground Zero (Producer)
- 2002 - Papa (Director/Producer)
- 2003 - Latin Kings: A Street Gang Story (Director/Editor/Cinematographer/Producer)
- 2003 - Coca and the Congressman (Director)
- 2004 - The Last Cowboy (Director)
- 2004 - Dope Sick Love (Executive Producer)
- 2004 - Off to War (Executive Producer)
- 2004 - Bullets in the Hood: A Bed-Stuy Story (Executive Producer)
- 2005 - Venezuela: Revolution in Progress (Cinematographer)
- 2006 - Baghdad ER (Director/Producer)
