Inaugural Hudson Film Festival Launches with ‘She Came to Me’ and ‘Mutt’ in NY State

The inaugural Hudson Film Festival launches August 11 – 13, 2023 in Hudson, New York with the North American premiere of Berlinale opener “She Came to Me,” starring Peter Dinklage, Marisa Tomei, and Anne Hathaway, written and directed by Rebecca Miller.

The film will be distributed later this year by Vertical Entertainment.The international film festival was co-founded by John Maybee, Sarah Peters, and Sonia Marcela Freeman to serve as the flagship of the forthcoming Hudson Valley Film Institute, a non-profit educational arts initiative.The lineup of feature films includes trans coming-of-age Sundance favorite “Mutt”, “Going Varsity in Mariachi”, and a 2023 Berlinale premiere in the Panorama section, “Perpetrator,” directed by Jennifer Reeder and starring Alicia Silverstone.Acclaimed short films screening at the festival include Academy Award-nominated “The Flying Sailor,” Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner “When You Left Me on That Boulevard,” and Locarno Film Festival premiere “In the Big Yard Inside the Teeny-Weeny Pocket.

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