Lance Acord (born September 9, 1964) A.S.C. is an American cinematographer. Acord was born in Fresno County, California. He attended Sir Francis Drake High School's School Within A School (S.W.A.S.) program and went on to study photography and filmmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute. He began his professional career with photographer/filmmaker Bruce Weber. Together they made documentaries, commercials and music videos. His latest work as a director is the short film commercial for Xfinity called A Holiday Reunion, reuniting E.T. and Henry Thomas, who reprises his role as Elliott.