Hikaru Toda is a director/producer and the founder of Little Stranger Films. Raised in the Netherlands, she holds master’s degrees in Visual Anthropology and Performance Making from Goldsmiths College, University of London. Her debut feature documentary Of Love & Law (2017) won top awards at the Tokyo International Film Festival (2017) and the Hong Kong International Film Festival (2018) and was nominated for an Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Documentary Film (2018). She most recently directed and produced an episode of Netflix’s Original Documentary Series My Love: 6 Stories of True Love (2021), which won the International Documentary Association (IDA) award for Best Episodic series and is streaming in 190 countries.
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy expresses its respect for and acknowledgement of the South East Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial communities on whose land works are created and celebrated by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities. We also pay our respects to Elders, past and present. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.
