Simeon Japhet Asher was born on 14 January 1961 and is an English film and television producer, writer and director who has worked in the United States for most of his career.
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Japhet Asher is considered a pioneer in the field of augmented reality storytelling, and has won multiple awards for the books with apps he has developed in this medium.
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Japhet Asher wrote and produced his first television film for the American Broadcasting Company, Peace on Borrowed Time, when he was 21 years old, during 1982; it aired the following year.
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The 1985 HBO documentary Soldiers in Hiding, of which Japhet Asher was a producer and writer, was nominated for an Academy Award.
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Japhet Asher graduated from New York's Tisch School of the Arts and worked extensively alongside director Malcolm Clarke during the 1980s.
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In 1982, when Japhet 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 Japhet Asher credited as writer and producer.
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Japhet 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.
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Howard Stringer 8.
Japhet Asher struck me as one of these British people who come over here [to America] and people think they're smart just because they have a British accent.
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Japhet Asher left in November 1995 when he was appointed executive vice-president of programming at the newly set-up Tele-TV network, a joint venture by the Bell Atlantic, NYNEX and Pacific Telesis telephone companies to provide interactive television, video on demand and internet to customers through their copper phone wires, aiming ultimately to compete with cable and satellite providers.
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Japhet Asher was placed in charge of producing original programming for the service, an "unenviable task", said Tele-TV chairman-CEO Howard Stringer.