Born in London , England , Asher attended Winchester College for five terms , before moving to San Francisco , California with his family . He graduated from New York 's Tisch School of the Arts and worked extensively alongside director Malcolm Clarke during the 1980s . In 1982 , when Asher was 21 , the duo collaborated on a television film for the American Broadcasting Company , '' Peace on Borrowed Time '' , which aired the following year with Asher credited as writer and producer . Asher held both of these roles on two more documentaries directed by Clarke for HBO ; the second of these , 1985 's '' Soldiers in Hiding '' , about Vietnam veterans , was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature , but lost out to '' Broken Rainbow '' , a documentary about the relocation of Navajo Native Americans . Asher 's sole release as a director , the television documentary '' Trouble on Big Mountain '' , also focussed on the Navajo and was released by San Francisco 's KQED network in 1986
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Japhet Asher