Personal Info
Jon Alpert
Directing
Biography
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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 U…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
as Self
All For One: Media Enabled Musketeers
Cuba and the Cameraman
as Self
High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell
as Narrator (voice)
One Year in a Life of Crime
as Self
Chinatown: Immigrants in America
as Narrator
Cuba: The People
as Narrator
