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David Cassidy is an Emmy Nominated and Peabody Award winning documentary filmmaker. He has produced documentary series and features with two-time Academy Award winning director Barbara Kopple and Cabin Creek Films since 2002. He recently premiered Miss Sharon Jones! at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. The film chronicles the life of charismatic soul-singer Sharon Jones through her recent cancer struggle and return to the stage. In reviewing the film The Hollywood Reporter describes that it "Hits all the sweet spots & high notes". Previously Cassidy produced the Emmy Nominated documentary Running from Crazy (OWN, 2013) which had its’ world premiere at Sundance 2013 and aired in Spring 2014. Engaging his passion for baseball, Cassidy produced The House of Steinbrenner (ESPN, 2010) which aired as part of ESPN's Peabody Award Winning 30 for 30 series. He produced the verite documentary Shut Up & Sing, produced & directed by Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck (2006), about the Dixie Chicks. Cassidy served as Co-Producer on the HBO documentary, Gun Fight, which examined the varied debate about guns throughout America. Cassidy directed and produced the documentary feature 'One Small Step: The Story of the Space Chimps' (2003) with Kristin Davy, about the chimpanzees used by NASA in the space race and what became of them. He began his career in documentary independently but moved on to work with Cabin Creek Films where he was part of the producing team behind the A&E Indie feature Bearing Witness (A&E, 2004), the VH1 verite documentary series I Married… (VH1, 2003–2006) and he co-produced a segment of HBO's Governor’s Award Winning special on Addiction (HBO, 2007). Cassidy continues to produce with Cabin Creek Films where he is currently working on a broad development slate in both the documentary and narrative genres. Outside the office he lives in Red Bank, New Jersey with his wife, son and four cats and is proud to serve as a volunteer firefighter.