David Acomba
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| Born | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
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| Years active | 1970-present |
David Acomba is a Canadian television and film producer/director whose television programmes have been featured on CBS, ABC, PBS, CBC, CTV, BBC, Channel 4, Showtime, and HBO.
David Acomba was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, and attended Bishop Whelan High School in the suburb of Lachine. In the early 1960s, he attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where he majored in Film and Television. In 1967, he attended film school at the University of Southern California at Los Angeles where he received a Master of Performing Arts degree.
Acomba moved to Toronto in 1969 and began producing and directing specials for Canada’s national network. A musically oriented director, Acomba began in 1970 by directing a television special for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Mariposa: A Folk Festival, with Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell. He then directed the first U.S. television network rock special for PBS (NET), Welcome To The Fillmore East, with Van Morrison, Albert King and The Byrds.
In 1973, he won the Canadian Film Award for Best Direction for his feature film Slipstream, about a popular disk jockey’s struggle for personal and professional integrity, with music by Eric Clapton and Van Morrison. In the autumn of 1974, he was asked to film George Harrison's North American Dark Horse Tour. Because Harrison had lost his voice prior to the tour and never fully regained it, the film was not released.
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