Peter Hujar's Day is a 2025 American biographical drama film written and directed by Ira Sachs and starring Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall as photographer Peter Hujar and writer Linda Rosenkrantz respectively, during the 1970s.
Premise.
The film is set in December 1974 in New York City and is about the photographer Peter Hujar and his friend Linda, with Sachs telling "IndieWire" it is "a film about what it is to be an artist among artists in a city where no one was making any money".
Production.
The film is written and directed by Ira Sachs and was initially conceived as a short film before being developed into a feature length film. The producers on the film are Jordan Drake and Jonah Disend.
The cast is led by Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall. Whishaw portrays photographer Peter Hujar with Hall featuring as the writer Linda Rosenkrantz. Rosenkrantz produced a book in 2021 of the same name which documents Hujar’s life and activities over 24 hours in 1974.
Filming was scheduled for New York in November 2023.
Release.
The film premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival on 27 January 2025. Shortly after, Janus Films and Sideshow acquired distribution rights to the film. It screened at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2025.