Matthew O'Neill is a

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best known for his work on the

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film '' Baghdad ER'', for which he and co-creator

Jon Alpert Jon Alpert (born c. December 13, 1948) is an American journalist and documentary film, documentary film director, filmmaker, known for his use of a cinéma vérité approach in his films. Life and career A native of Port Chester, New York, Jo ...

won three

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s. He and Alpert were nominated for a 2010 Academy Award for their film '' China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province'' about the

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. They were nominated again for a 2013 Academy Award for their film ''Redemption'' about individuals in New York City, known as canners, who survive by collecting cans and bottles from trash and recycling bins and redeeming them for money. Also co-producer of the Life of Crime: 1984-2020 which was nominated for a 2021

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. He has been involved with Downtown Community Television Center since 1997. He primarily produces films about subjects outside the

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including ''In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution'' (2011) about the Egyptian Revolution for HBO, ''Turkey's Tigers'' (2006) about the rise of religious

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ic businessmen in

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for

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' '' Wide Angle'' and ''Venezuela: Revolution in Progress'' (2005) which aired on Discovery Times.Venezuela: Revolution in Progress (2005) (TV)
/ref> O'Neill is a graduate of

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Matthew O'Neill biography
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