Hosted by The Crandell Theatre, FilmColumbia offers film buffs an exciting long weekend of film screenings and meet the filmmaker events. Past festivals have featured many films that have gone on to garner industry and critic awards and nominations. Programmed by festival executive director Peter  Biskind (a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and past executive editor of Premiere Magazine), former senior curator for film and media at MoMA, Laurence Kardish, and festival director Calliope Nicholas, FilmColumbia gives film patrons in the Hudson Valley the inside track on front-runners months before they are released to general audiences.