Jon Alpert

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1948-01-01 (77 years old)

Place of Birth

Port Chester, New York, USA

Jon Alpert

Biography

​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. ...

Production

2010

1998

1998

Life of Crime 2

as Cinematography

1998

Life of Crime 2

as Producer

2013

Redemption

as Director

2006

Baghdad ER

as Producer

2021

Life of Crime: 1984-2020

as Director of Photography

2007

Addiction

as Director

2016

Banking on Bitcoin

as Executive Producer

2017

1998

Life of Crime 2

as Director

2017

2017

2006

Baghdad ER

as Director

2019

2019

2002

Papa

as Director

2008

Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery

as Director of Photography

2007

Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq

as Director of Photography

2019

Finding the Way Home

as Director of Photography

2017

Cuba and the Cameraman

as Director of Photography

2002

Papa

as Director of Photography

2008

Dirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana

as Director of Photography

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