Keiko Tsuno has been producing and directing documentaries since 1969. Between 1974 and 1979, together with her husband Jon Alpert, Tsuno co-produced five one-hour documentaries for public television.
The earliest, entitled Cuba: The People, presented the first American television coverage inside Cuba in ten years. The New York Times selected this work as one of the best television productions in the country that year.
In 1976, she won the Columbia DuPont Award and the Christopher Award for Chinatown: Immigrants in
America, and her 1977 award-winning piece Vietnam: Picking Up the Pieces marked the first time an American TV crew had filmed in Vietnam since the war.
She also covered the Vietnam-China Border Wars, and when Fidel Castro came to address the United Nations, her team was the only non-Cuban crew allowed access to Castro.
