Jon Alpert
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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.
Cuba and the Cameraman
Banking on Bitcoin
Life of Crime: 1984-2020
Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
Rock and a Hard Place
High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell
Redemption
The Latin Explosion: A New America
Mariela Castro's March: Cuba's LGBT Revolution
In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution
Wartorn: 1861-2010
China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province