Jon Alpert

Jon Alpert has won 17 National Emmy Awards and been nominated for 2 Academy Awards. He is the co-founder of Downtown Community Television Center, one of America’s oldest and most honored community media centers. Over 75,000 New Yorkers have attended DCTV’s free or at-cost filmmaking workshops. 100 % of DCTV’s high school students go on to college. DCTV’s Firehouse Cinema is an Academy qualifying theater that celebrates documentary films 7 days a week. Jon has run out of fingers and toes to count all the war zones he’s filmed in. Luckily, he survived with plenty of scares but no serious injuries. However, he’s broken almost every bone in his body pursuing his “hobbies”… karate, hockey, and getting bucked off horses.