Katy-May Hudson is a Sydney-based filmmaker and an AFTRS Master of Screen Arts (Directing) candidate. Her work centres on female-driven narratives, exploring identity, power, and the often unseen interior lives of women.

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, WhoHaha, New York Women in Film & Television, ART/NY, Funny or Die, Coca-Cola, The School of Visual Arts, and Hofstra University, among others.

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

Katy-May is currently in pre-production on the short films The Book Club and Party Girl on Fire, and in development on a feature-length screenplay.