Toru Tokikawa
Born in Japan raised in the US and Indonesia, a multi-award winning director TORU TOKIKAWA has been based in London and Paris and is developing several feature film projects. He was selected for International Finacing Forum at Toronto Int'l Film Festival and Producer's Lab during CineMart at Rotterdam Int'l Film Festival 2008. His projects are supported by J-Pitch, a Japanese film promoting organization, sponsored by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
Toru has directed and produced internationally acclaimed two short films: NOODLE SOUP and A BOX, which were the official selection at Boston, Sao Paulo Int'l, Karlovy Vary Int'l, Philadelphia and Seoul Net Film Festivals among others. He is officially invited to the Berlin International Film Festival's Talent Campus 2005. The British Council supported NOODLE SOUP for international film festivals. It has nominated for the Best Narrative Short award at Oakland International Film Festival. Both films are distributed worldwide through Shorts International Ltd. The shorts are on AOL's Moviefone and NOODLE SOUP was broadcast on Comcast and NYC TV25 and sold to Canal+ Poland, SBS TV Australia and SBS Europe.
Toru's commercial film for MANIX that he directed through @radical.media won multiple awards including London International Advertising Award. He has been directing music videos and commercials for over 12 years. He started his career as an art director at Japanese advertising agency Dentsu Inc., in Tokyo. He graduated from the University of Tokyo. He speaks English, French and Japanese.
See also
- Indianapolis International Film Festival
- Blake Ritson