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Caption: 1st American Short Shorts Film Festival: (l-r) George Lucas, festival director Tetsuya Bessho, festival staff Helen Zeilberger, filmmaker Chris Tashima - June 1999; reception at U.S. Embassy, Tokyo, Japan
About Chris Tashima
Actor, Art Department, Writer
Known for: Visas and Virtue (1997), Lil Tokyo Reporter (2012), Day of Independence (2003), Americanese (2006)
Source: IMDB
In 1998, Chris Tashima received an Academy Award® for Live Action Short Film, for Visas and Virtue (1997) -- a 26-minute historical drama inspired by Holocaust rescuer Chiune 'Sempo' Sugihara -- which he directed, co-wrote (adapting an original one-act play by Tim Toyama), and starred as the Humanitarian diplomat. To produce the film, he ...
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