Katy-May Hudson is an Australian film director whose work explores power, identity and womanhood through psychologically rich and formally distinct cinema.

She is the Founder and Festival Director of the Brooklyn Women’s Film Festival, and a former Co-Artistic Director of the New York Neo-Futurists, one of New York’s most influential experimental theatre collectives. Her work and leadership span film, theatre, and curatorial practice across Australia and the United States.

Katy-May is a recipient of the Coca-Cola Refreshing Films Program and the SVA Alumni Scholarship Award, a semi-finalist for The Future of Film Is Female Fund, an AACTA Reg Grundy Award finalist, and a Best of Fest winner at SVA Theatre, New York. Her films have been screened at dozens of film festivals in Australia and beyond.

She has collaborated with organisations including Sydney Opera House, YouTube TV, Coca-Cola, Flickerfest, WhoHaha, New York Women in Film & Television, ART/NY, Funny or Die, The School of Visual Arts, and Hofstra University, among others.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from Southern Cross University (Australia), a Master’s in Directing from the School of Visual Arts, New York and is an AFTRS Master of Screen Arts (Directing) candidate.

Katy-May is currently in post-production on the film, The Book Club and in pre-production for Party Girl on Fire and a children’s educational film, Sevin Finds a Friend. She is also in development on a feature-length screenplay.