Tag: Life of Crime
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“Life and Filmmaking are Both a Search for Cutaways”: Jon Alpert on Life of Crime 1984-2020
For 36 years documentarian Jon Alpert followed three friends—Rob Steffey, Freddie Rodriguez, and Deliris Vasquez—through a Newark underground of drugs and poverty. We see them getting into trouble with the law, undergoing prison and rehab and reintegrating into society. Alpert, a recipient of Doc NYC’s Lifetime Achievement Award, gained remarkable access to a closed-off world.…