Jon Alpert

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Jon Alpert (* 1948 in Port Chester , New York ) is an American journalist and filmmaker who uses elements of cinéma vérité style . He won 15 Emmys and three DuPont Awards from Columbia University during his long career . He was nominated twice for the Oscar .

Life

Alpert grew up in Port Chester, New York State and studied at Colgate University . He then drove a taxi for two years and then, with his wife Keiko Tsuno, founded the Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV), one of the state's first media centers. Alpert filmed video footage of real life in New York and demonstrated it in Chinatown. Over time, he aroused people's interest and made contacts with public radio. There he made several documentaries, including one about Cuba , which was highly praised by the New York Times .

In 1976 he first won the DuPont Award from Columbia University for the film Chinatown: Immigrants in America . Vietnam: Picking Up the Pieces , one of the first films about Vietnam after the end of the Vietnam War , was released in 1977 . In 1979 Alpert switched to the National Broadcasting Company and reported, among other things, from Cambodia , on Pol Pot and the genocide by the Khmer Rouge . He won two Emmys while reporting on Vietnam. He also reported on the First Gulf War , the hostage-taking of Tehran and the hostage-taking in the Iranian embassy in London in 1980 . One of the few interviews with Fidel Castro who normally refused to let Western reporters come to him also became known. As part of his coverage of the Second Gulf War , he shot various material during the bombing of the United States that showed civilian casualties. This led to his firing from NBC and Columbia Broadcasting System's refusal to broadcast the material.

From 1993 to 2002 he conducted several interviews with Saddam Hussein . In the late 1990s, Alpert began working for the commercial broadcaster HBO . There he shot the two-hour documentary Life of Crime Part 2 and A Cinderella Season: The Lady Vols Fight Back . In 1999 he accompanied Jesse Jackson for the American Broadcasting Company when he traveled with a delegation to Yugoslavia to free three prisoners of war. During the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 , he filmed the rescue work.

In addition to various ecological topics, he also filmed about the Third Gulf War , the war in Afghanistan and the 2008 Sichuan earthquake . The film China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province , which he directed with Matthew O'Neill , was nominated for an Oscar. Likewise the short documentary film Redemption .

Awards (selection)

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Jon Alpert. DCTV, accessed January 8, 2014 .
  2. ↑ CBS AND NBC SPIKED FOOTAGE OF IRAQ BOMBING CARNAGE. (No longer available online.) Ringnebula.com, archived from the original on July 21, 2011 ; Retrieved January 8, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ringnebula.com
personal data
SURNAME Alpert, Jon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Port Chester , New York