GREENWOOD LAKE – The Hoboken International Film Festival will not be held in Greenwood Lake next spring. The three-year contract between the village and festival founder and organizer Kenneth Del Vecchio has expired and Mayor Jesse Dwyer said on Tuesday that the village is not renewing it.
Dwyer said while the event held in May attracted new faces to the village, it did not pan out the way they had hoped.
“A lot of people really enjoyed it,” Dwyer said. “It brought some really great stars and some nice attention to Greenwood Lake and we got out of it what we wanted to get out of it and we gave it a shot. It was a challenging thing to do seeing as how we did not have a theater in Greenwood Lake so we created our own theater and it was an amazing experience, but not something we wanted to do forever.”
Dwyer said the village contributed $40,000 in each of the three years.
Del Vecchio, meanwhile, said he is in discussions with other potential locations for future film festivals but said nothing has been firmed up at this point.
The festival began in Hoboken, moved to another New Jersey location before coming to the City of Middletown. In the last three years, it was held in Greenwood Lake.
