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Keiko Tsuno
Keiko Tsuno is an award winning renown Japanese/ American documentary filmmaker and co-founder of Downtown Community Television Center.
Life and career
Keiko Tsuno was born in Tokyo, Japan. In the 1960s, upon graduating from Tama University in Japan, she moved to New York City where she met and married fellow journalist Jon Alpert.
In 1972, Tsuno and Alpert co-founded the non-profit organization, Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV),[1] one of the country's first and largest community media centers. DCTV is housed in a landmark firehouse in New York City. DCTV's programs have trained more than 70,000 people over the course of its 50+ year history,[2] most of them members of low-income and minority communities.[3] DCTV offers over 150 low-cost video and electronic media training workshops a year[4]. The most accomplished of their students are DCTV's High School Media Fellows. They have won local Emmy Awards, the Sundance Film Festival jury prize,[5] and the R.F.K. Journalism award. Many of Tsuno's films address inequalities and injustices in society. [6]
Tsuno first began making films in 1969. She and Alpert are self-trained documentary filmmakers who learned on the streets.[7] From humble beginnings, Tsuno has built an illustrious and highly decorated career.[8]
Keiko Tsuno has produced many documentaries for PBS, NHK, HBO and numerous other broadcasters.[9] Her work includes The Story of Vinh (1991), winner of the CINE Golden Eagle Award and Special Distinction at the Tokyo Video Festival. For Third Avenue - Only the Strong Survive (1980) she received a National Emmy Award for Best Editing. [10]The work also received the Grand Prix at the Tokyo Video Festival. [11]
Among her other award-winning works are Vietnam - Picking Up the Pieces (1978), Healthcare - Your Money or Your Life (1977) and Chinatown - Immigrants in America (1976), and Canal Street - First Stop in America (1998), which was produced through a film/video fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation and a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.[12]
Tsuno earned an Emmy nomination for producing Cuba and the Cameraman, a 2017 documentary directed by Alpert.[13]
In 2022 Tsuno's non-profit, DCTV, opened the Firehouse Cinema, one of the few documentary centric cinemas in the world. The theater features first run, curated, repertory, masterclasses and family programs.[14] Tsuno's book, "Changing the World Through Video," published in Japan, recounts her many years of experience in filmmaking.[15] For over half a century, Tsuno has enriched the documentary film world through her work and through her leadership at DCTV.
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