Toddy Stewart is a filmmaker’s friend, confidante, collaborator and co-conspirator. And also an editor and photographer who filmmakes.

He spent 12 years as partner and creative director and executive post producer at the award winning production company Picture Farm facilitating and collaborating with other creatives and art directors, commercial, fashion and documentary photographers, fine artists and fellow filmmakers. Toddy curated and operated the PF Gallery from 2011 to 2018 and, alongside Ty Breuer, hosted the annual It Doesn’t Not Work surfcraft expo from 2014 to 2018.

He has an Emmy statuette with his name on it and in helped guide dozens of projects to multiple industry awards in his various roles, including Clios and Reggies, Addies and Tellies, golden high fives, graphite this’s and platinum that’s, Staff Picks and online features and AICP & Webby nominations, Best Of’s and shortlists.

His work in these same various roles has been presented at the Tribeca Film Festival, Cannes Lions, the Ciclope Festival, Santa Barbara Film Festival, Berlin Fashion Film Festival, New York Film Festival, La Jolla International Fashion Film Festival, Byron Bay Film Festival, New York Surf Film Festival, Canadian Surf Film Festival, London Surf Film Festival and Surfilm Festibal San Sebastián, Festival Maribor among others. His handiwork has been presented at the Whitney Museum, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, The Brooklyn Museum, the World Trade Center Oculus and at the Barclay’s Center Brooklyn Oculus (editing for Marilyn Minter), Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (editing for Roe Ethridge), Wembley Stadium (editing for Umbro), and Times Square (editing for both Ryan McGinley and Nike.) In 2021 he worked with the photographer/artist/director Justin French to bring Alice Coltrane’s Kirtan: Turiya Sings to visual life as a meditative album film.

He has spoken at SXSW about how to make the advertising industry more inclusive and at Advertising Week New York about how to optimize for an evolving digital world and participated in round tables at the NYC Mayor's Office of Media & Entertainment about professional training programs. For his work developing a filmmaking internship and mentorship program at Picture Farm, in 2019 he was named a Small Business Administration Small Business Person of the Year and a Brooklyn Workforce Innovations Outstanding Employer.

In 2008 he made a paean to the rigors of a surfing life that holds enduring relevance.
He continues to pursue making films from bits and ends and sometimes he experiments with writing on Substack and maintains a personal Instagram account.

"Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. It is an orientation of the spirit and orientation of the heart; it transcends the world that is immediately experienced and is anchored somewhere beyond its horizons. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed. The more propitious the situation in which we demonstrate hope, the deeper the hope is. Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."

- Václav Havel