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Photo Credit: Stanton R. Winter
Photo credit: Jon Alpert
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Turkey's Tigers
Tuesday, August 22, 2006 at 9 P.M.
For years, Turkey has been run by a stridently secular business and political elite struggling to align itself with the Western world, while its pious Muslims have been pushed to the political and economic fringes. But now, even the most devout Muslims are embracing Western-style capitalism and commerce -- and are ascending in Turkish society at the ballot box and in big business. Turkey's Tigers captures this modern, unexpected face of Islam unseen in American media.
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Producer/director Jon Alpert, cofounder of America's largest nonprofit community media center, Downtown Community Television, has received 12 Emmy awards for news and documentary programs as well as three Columbia DuPont awards and a Christopher. In 1977, he became the first American television filmmaker to enter Vietnam since the end of the war. After the Gulf War he was the only reporter to have interviewed Saddam Hussein. For his most recent documentary, BAGHDAD ER, he was given unprecedented access to a U.S. army hospital in Iraq and captured the day-to-day lives of doctors, nurses, soldiers, and chaplains in the army's premier medical facility. His reports from Vietnam, Cuba, the former Soviet Union, China, Nicaragua, Korea, Afghanistan, Iraq, and the United States have been broadcast on NBC, ABC, CBS, HBO, PBS, ESPN, and on Canadian and Japanese networks. Alpert has directed two WIDE ANGLE films: "To Have and Have Not," profiling people on the extremes of poverty and great wealth in China and "Coca and the Congressman," following the life of ex-Bolivian congressman and cocalero leader, Evo Morales, two years before he was elected president.
Producer/director Matthew O'Neill has been working with the independent nonprofit media center Downtown Community Television in New York since 2001, producing and directing films for PBS, the DISCOVERY CHANNEL, and CBS. His most recent documentary for HBO, BAGHDAD ER, follows doctors at a U.S. army hospital in Baghdad and has been hailed as "required viewing for all but the youngest Americans." His 2001 political programming about the New York mayoral race, CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL and ACCESS DEMOCRACY, won two New York Emmy Awards, a Silver Hugo, and a Gold Plaque at the Chicago International Television Awards. O'Neill produced "To Have and Have Not" and "Coca and the Congressman" for WIDE ANGLE.
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