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Jay Craven

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Birthplace:
Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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Jay Craven is a Vermont film director, screenwriter and professor of film studies at Marlboro College.  Jay Craven is known for creating award winning films on modest budgets, adopting all of the novels of author Howard Frank Mosher to film. He often casts from a regular troupe of Vermont actors including Tantoo Cardinal and Rusty DeWees, but has also worked with Rip Torn and Kris Kristofferson. Craven founded and runs Kingdom County Productions and recently launched Catamount Arts performing arts program, New England's largest independent arts producer and presenter. Jay Craven is married to Bess O'Brien who is also a co-founder of Kingdom County Productions.  Craven speaks three languages (English, Spanish, Hungarian) in addition to his native Creole.  Craven attended Boston University for undergraduate studies where he studied and developed a life long friendship with Howard Zinn. He later went on to Goddard College. He lives in the Northeast Kingdom with his family .  Description above from the Wikipedia article Jay Craven, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Film Production

Director:
1993  Where the Rivers Flow North
1999  A Stranger in the Kingdom
2002  The Year That Trembled
2007  Disappearances
2014  Freedom & Unity: The Vermont Movie
2015  Northern Borders
2015  Peter and John
2018  Wetware
2021  Blood Brothers
2024  Lost Nation
????  Martin Eden

Editor:
1993  Where the Rivers Flow North
1999  A Stranger in the Kingdom
2002  The Year That Trembled
2007  Disappearances
2014  Freedom & Unity: The Vermont Movie
2015  Northern Borders
2015  Peter and John
2018  Wetware
2021  Blood Brothers
2024  Lost Nation
????  Martin Eden

Producer:
1993  Where the Rivers Flow North
1999  A Stranger in the Kingdom
2002  The Year That Trembled
2007  Disappearances
2014  Freedom & Unity: The Vermont Movie
2015  Approaching the Elephant
2015  Northern Borders
2015  Peter and John
2018  Wetware
2021  Blood Brothers
2024  Lost Nation
????  Martin Eden

Screenplay:
1993  Where the Rivers Flow North
1999  A Stranger in the Kingdom
2002  The Year That Trembled
2007  Disappearances
2014  Freedom & Unity: The Vermont Movie
2015  Approaching the Elephant
2015  Northern Borders
2015  Peter and John
2018  Wetware
2021  Blood Brothers
2024  Lost Nation
????  Martin Eden

Writer:
1993  Where the Rivers Flow North
1999  A Stranger in the Kingdom
2002  The Year That Trembled
2007  Disappearances
2014  Freedom & Unity: The Vermont Movie
2015  Approaching the Elephant
2015  Northern Borders
2015  Peter and John
2018  Wetware
2021  Blood Brothers
2024  Lost Nation
????  Martin Eden

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