Todd Wider

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Todd Wider is American plastic surgeon and film producer based in New York, who is active in documentary filmmaking. He graduated from Princeton University in 1986, and Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1990. As a surgeon, he was active in helping the passage of the Women's Health and Cancer Act of 1998, federal legislation signed into law by President Clinton, mandating insurance coverage for breast cancer reconstruction. He also was a volunteer surgeon for Victims Services, an organization providing surgery to victims of abuse, and was a volunteer surgeon at Ground Zero, during the 9/11 tragedy in New York City.

As a film producer, Wider has produced, with his brother Jedd, Beyond Conviction(2006), a documentary about restorative justice in the Pennsylvania prison system. The film premiered at the LA Film Festival, won the audience award at the Woodstock Film Festival, and also appeared at the Viennale, and the Leeds Film Festival. This film premiered on MSNBC. He also produced What Would Jesus Buy? (2006), a Morgan Spurlock film about consumerism in the United States that focuses on the performance artist Billy Talen, and premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival in 2007. In addition, he is producing and codirecting Kicking It (2007), a documentary about the Homeless World Cup, an international tournament for the homeless football league. In 2006, the tournament was held in Cape Town, and was won by the Russian team. He is also an executive producer of Taxi to the Dark Side (2007), a documentary about prisoner abuse that is being directed by Alex Gibney. He is also producing The Untyings (2006), a film about exorcism in Romania. He is also producing A Dream in Doubt (2006), directed by Tami Yeager, a documentary about intolerance in the wake of 9/11 that focuses on a Sikh family in Arizona that premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival and at Lincoln Center, New York, in 2007. He is currently developing a documentary with Paul Cronin about the Columbia University student uprisings in 1968.