Goro Toshima is an award winning documentary filmmaker.  His film, A Hard Straight, received the jury award for best documentary feature at the South by Southwest and Santa Barbara Film Festivals.  In addition to screening at dozens of other festivals, including LA and Chicago, A Hard Straight broadcast nationally on PBS' Emmy award winning series, 'Independent Lens'.  The Village Voice called the film 'riveting...an honest and intimate film packed with much needed answers.'  Variety said 'it's a dramatic and up-close look at the temptations and frustrations faced by three parolees...It won't be hard for this documentary to gain global festival and tube exposure."

His most recent film, Broken Doors, received the International Documentary Association nomination for best documentary short.  It also received the jury award for best documentary short at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival and New Orleans Int'l Film Festival, and screened at numerous festivals throughout the U.S. and Europe.

As a cinematographer, Goro's work has aired on HBO, PBS, the Sundance Channel and Bravo.  He was the D.P. on Heidi Fleiss, the Would Be Madam of Crystal about Heidi Fleiss' new brothel, One Punk Under God about the son of Tammy Faye, and Transgeneration, following 5 transgender kids they enter college.

In addition to his film and TV work, Goro also directs new media commercial spots for various advertising agencies, including Goodby-Silverstein and 72 Sunny (clients include AT&T, Hyundai and Bugaboo).  Goro received a Masters Degree in Documentary Filmmaking from Stanford University.