Cedar Grove Productions
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| Entertainment | |
| Genre | Asian Pacific American media and theatre arts |
| Founded | 1996 |
| Founder |
Tim Toyama, co-founder Chris Tashima, co-founder Chris Donahue, co-founder |
| Headquarters | Los Angeles, CA, United States |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
| Divisions | Motion pictures, television, theatre |
| Website | www.cedargroveproductions.com |
Cedar Grove Productions is an independent production company based in Los Angeles, CA., specializing in media and theatre arts representing the Asian Pacific American community. Media projects are educational, with Visual Communications (VC) serving as a non-profit fiscal sponsor.
Company was founded 1996 by playwright Tim Toyama, actor/director Chris Tashima, producer Chris Donahue and actor/director Tom Donaldson, to bring the story of Holocaust rescuer Chiune “Sempo” Sugihara to the screen by adapting Toyama’s original one-act, Visas and Virtue, as a narrative short film. Visas and Virtue (1997) film won the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film at the 70th Academy Awards. In tribute to that film's subject, the company takes its name from the literal translation of "Sugihara": sugi (Japanese: 杉) meaning cedar, and hara (Japanese: 原) meaning field or grove. Company describes itself as, "... dedicated to developing and producing projects which boldly defy mainstream Hollywood by giving Asian Americans the close-up on screen, or the spotlight on stage."
Cedar Grove Productions produced Day of Independence, a narrative short film broadcast as a half-hour PBS television special on KHET/PBS Hawai'i in 2005. Produced by Lisa Onodera, the program received an Emmy nomination from the NATAS San Francisco/Northern California Chapter, in the category of Historical/Cultural – Program/Special. The fact-based story followed a young Nisei (second-generation Japanese American) baseball player during the Japanese American internment in World War II.
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