Highest rated movie: Cuba and the Cameraman (2017)
Lowest rated movie: High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell (1995)
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Movies starring Jon Alpert have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 77%.
Cuba and the Cameraman - released in 2017 - is Jon Alpert's highest rated movie, with a score of 80% based on 16 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Jon Alpert is High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell - released in 1995 - with a score of 75% based on 2 reviews.
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.
In 1972, Alpert and his wife, Keiko Tsuno, founded the Downtown Community Television Center, one of the country's 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.
Jon Alpert has acted in films with Fidel Castro, Mickey O'Keefe, Cristobal Borrego and Luis Amores.
Jon Alpert has worked with these film directors: Maryann DeLeo and Richard Farrell.
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