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Author: Books LLC
Title: Directors of Live Action Short Film Academy Award Winners: Chris Tashima, Andrea Arnold, Anders Thomas Jensen, Beverly Shaffer, Lou Brock
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Published in: English
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 28
Date: 2010-06-25
ISBN: 1158631197
Publisher: Books LLC
Weight: 0.12 pounds
Size: 5.98 x 9.02 x 0.04 inches
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Chris Tashima, Andrea Arnold, Anders Thomas Jensen, Beverly Shaffer, Lou Brock, David Frankel. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Chris Tashima (born in 1960, in Cambridge, MA) is a Japanese American actor and director. He is co-founder of the entertainment company Cedar Grove Productions and Artistic Director of its Asian American theatre company, Cedar Grove OnStage. He is the son of U.S. Circuit Judge A. Wallace Tashima. He currently resides in Los Angeles, CA. Tashima was born on the East Coast, while his father attended Harvard Law School, but grew up in California. He lived in Pasadena, where he began Suzuki Method violin at age 6. His family moved to Berkeley, where he lived for nine years, attending The College Preparatory School. He returned to Southern California, graduating from John Marshall High School (1978). He attended UC Santa Cruz (Porter College), where he studied film production. He also attended UCLA, and took additional filmmaking courses at Visual Communications (VC). He started his acting career at East West Players in 1985. Tashima stars as the romantic lead opposite Joan Chen in Eric Byler's Americanese, an unreleased feature from IFC First Take. The film won two awards after its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival, including a Special Jury Prize for Outstanding Ensemble Cast. He has also appeared in Sherwood Hu's Lani Loa - The Passage (1998) with Angus Macfadyen, and Rea Tajiri's Strawberry Fields (1997) with Suzy Nakamura. He starred opposite Tamlyn Tomita in the 1995 AFI short, Requiem, directed by actress Elizabeth Sung. His stage credits include originating roles in Ken Narasaki's No-No Boy, Chay Yews A Language of Their Own (LA Weekly Theater Award for Ensemble Performance, shared with Noel Alumit, Anthony Davi... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=10096525
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