sentences:  Tashima won an Academy Award for Live Action Short Film with producer Chris Donahue, for "Visas and Virtue" (1997), which he directed, co-wrote (adapting the one-act play by Toyama), and starred in.To produce "Visas and Virtue", he co-founded Cedar Grove Productions in 1996, with Toyama and Donahue.Tashima directed, co-wrote and acted in "Day of Independence" (2003), a half-hour television special for PBS, produced by Lisa Onodera, which received a Regional Emmy Nomination from the NATAS San Francisco/Northern California Chapter, in the category of Historical/Cultural — Program/Special.