Caption: Winning Best Actor at the Los Angeles International Underground Film Festival, for "Lil Tokyo Reporter" - with executive producer Carole Fujita, accepting Best Narrative Short Award - June 23, 2013; Whitefire Theatre, Sherman Oaks CA
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 ...