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 DuPontColumbia Awards He has been nominated for a 2010 Academy Award in the category of Best Documentary Short Subject for Chinas 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 countrys 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia