Toddy Stewart is an artist’s friend, confidante, collaborator and co-conspirator and an editor and cinematographer who filmmakes.
He is also a creative, community-oriented thinker dedicated to facilitating the kind of human co-experience that is good for the whole Earth (and everyone on it.)

He operated and curated the Brooklyn art gallery PF Gallery from 2011 to 2018 and, alongside Ty Breuer, hosted the annual It Doesn’t Not Work DiY hydrodynamic design expo from 2014 to 2018. In 2019 he was named a Small Business Administration Small Business Person of the Year and a Brooklyn Workforce Innovations Outstanding Employer for developing a filmmaking internship and mentorship program. 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 has participated in round tables at the NYC Mayor's Office of Media & Entertainment about professional training programs.

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.

He spent 12 years as partner and creative director and executive post producer at the award winning production company Picture Farm, collaborating with other creatives and art directors, commercial, fashion and documentary photographers, fine artists and fellow filmmakers. His work in his various roles have led to 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 as an editor 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 (Marilyn Minter), Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (Roe Ethridge), Wembley Stadium (Umbro & the English FA), and Times Square. 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.

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