Goro Toshima
cell 415.412.2293 • goroto22@hotmail.com
DOCUMENTARY
A Hard Straight
An intimate portrait of three paroled convicts, struggling to keep their freedom.
Jury Prize for Best Documentary Feature, SXSW Film Festival • Jury Prize for Best Documentary, Santa Barbara Int’l Film Festival • ITVS Grant Recipient • PBS National Broadcast, Independent Lens Series
Other screenings include –Los Angeles Film Festival, Chicago Film Festival, Big Sky Int’l Documentary Film Festival, and many others.
Broken Doors
Portrait of a young, homeless couple in Hollywood facing one of their biggest challenges…an unexpected pregnancy.
International Documentary Association, Best Documentary Short nomination • Jury Prize for Best Documentary Short, Big Sky Documentary Festival • Jury Prize for Best Documentary Short, New Orleans Int'l Film Festival • Best Director Documentary Short, Los Angeles Int’l Film Festival • Newport Film Festival • Rooftop Film Series (NY) • ZagrebDox Int'l Film Festival • Document.Art Int’l Film Festival (Bucharest, Romania) • Hamptons Int'l Film Festival
ADVERTISING/CORPORATE
AT&T
Web film about how AT&T makes technology more accessible for the disabled.
AT&T, 2011
Bugaboo
Web film for 2009 Bugaboo campaign/website.
72 and Sunny, 2009
Bank of the West
Web film for 2008 Bank of the West campaign/website.
Landor & Associates, 2008
Hyundai
Web film for 2007 Hyundai campaign.
Gooby, Silverstein and Partners, 2007
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY (TV)
Man Shops Globe, Season 2 (Sundance Channel, per episode)
Intervention (A&E, per episode)
Heidi Fleiss: The Would-Be Madame of Crystal (HBO)
What Perez Sez (VH1)
Show Choir (MTV)
Addiction (HBO)
One Punk Under God (Sundance Channel)
Trans-Generation (Sundance Channel)
Real Premonitions (A&E)
Exorcism (A&E)
CAMERA OPERATOR
Million Dollar Listing, Season3 (Bravo)
Deliver Me (OWN)
The Bachelor, Season 14 (ABC)
Fantasia (VH1)
Mall Cops (TLC)
The Last Beekeeper (Planet Green_
Pam Anderson: Girl on the Loose (E_
Million Dollar Listing, season 2 (Bravo)
Tori and Dean in Love, season 2 (Oxygen)
Party-Party (Bravo)
OTHER FILM WORK
Jump the Void
Feature Screenplay – Writer
Logline: After their mother’s unfortunate accident, two teenage girls are left to fend for themselves.
Slamdance Screenplay Competition, finalist (6th place out of over 2500 submissions)
Sundance Screenwriters Lab, semi-finalist
Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competition, top 10%
Fade In Screenwriting Awards, quarter finalist
Writer’s Network Screenplay Competition, quarterfinalist
EDUCATION
Stanford University - Palo Alto, CA
M.A. - Documentary Film Program 9/94 - 6/96
Colby College - Waterville, ME
B.A. - English Literature and East Asian Studies 9/87 - 6/91
Magna Cum Laude, graduated with distinction in majors