Person
Keiko Tsuno
Camera
Biography
Keiko Tsuno is a New York–based television producer and documentary filmmaker and a co-founder of the Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV), one of the first community media centers in the United States. Working frequently with filmmaker Jon Alpert, Tsuno helped pioneer early video journalism and independent documentary production beginning in the 1970s. Her work includes Chinatown: Immigrants in America (1976) and Vietnam: Picking Up the Pieces (1978), both winners of the duPont-Columbia Award, as well as Third Avenue: Only the Strong Survive (1980), which received a National Emmy Award for editing. Her later projects include The Story of Vinh (1991), honored with a CINE Golden Eagle Award and recognition at the Tokyo Video Festival.
Known for
Open Space
1983
Cuba and the Cameraman
Camera Operator
Chinatown: Immigrants in America
Director
Cuba: The People
Director
Canal Street: First Stop in America
Director
Vietnam: Picking up the Pieces
Director
Healthcare: Your Money or Your Life
Producer
Third Avenue: Only the Strong Survive
Director
Filmography
- 2017Cuba and the CameramanCamera Operator
- 1998Canal Street: First Stop in AmericaDirector
- 1983Open Space
- 1980Third Avenue: Only the Strong SurviveDirector
- 1978Healthcare: Your Money or Your LifeProducer
- 1978Vietnam: Picking up the PiecesDirector
- 1976Chinatown: Immigrants in AmericaDirector
- 1974Cuba: The PeopleDirector
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