Alan Toth

Alan Toth is a writer, filmmaker and photographer based in San Francisco. His non-fiction writing has been published by KQED, Mission Local, UC San Francisco, Berkeley Engineer Magazine, the Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory and Stanford University’s Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute. His fiction has appeared in literary journals.

His short film Mining Phosphorus screened at film festivals, and a version of the film was broadcast on PBS Newshour. His short film on human-lion conflict appeared in The Atlantic Selects, a series of short films curated by The Atlantic Magazine. His feature documentary Posh Corps chronicled the experiences of Peace Corps Volunteers in South Africa as they struggled to be helpful in a rapidly changing country. The film screened at universities throughout the United States and at USAID headquarters in Washington D.C.

Alan has produced and filmed in South Africa, Kenya, Morocco, Jamaica, New Zealand, Fiji, Kiribati and all around the United States. He has a Masters in Journalism from UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. He has a Bachelor of Science in Multimedia from the Art Institute of Portland. He also studied media and communications at the University of Auckland in New Zealand and fine art and music at Northwest College in Wyoming. He served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in South Africa.