Todd Hughes (born August 13, 1963) is an American writer, producer and film director. He is a Columbia University graduate and currently resides in Los Angeles.
His short film directing credits include "Kaka Ferskur" (1988) and "Ding Dong" (1995). He directed the independent feature "The New Women" (2001) starring Mary Woronov and wrote for the Fox television series Wicked Wicked Games (2007) starring Tatum O'Neal. He produced his first documentary "Hit So Hard" [1] with Christina Soletti about drummer Patty Schemel of the seminal grunge band Hole, which had its world premiere at SXSW 2011 and will be released theatrically in 2012.[2]
In 2001, he was named one of Filmmaker Magazine's New Faces of Indie Film[3] and he is half of a long-standing writing partnership with filmmaker P. David Ebersole.