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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 .
Most Popular Jay Craven Trailers
Total trailers found: 12
08 March 2021
Two brothers’ relationship strains when the younger one receives news of a strange inheritance complicating their competition for a mysterious young woman.
01 June 2024
An epic tale of Vermont's fight for self-determination, led by Ethan Allen; and Lucy Prince, the first black female poet, and her quest for justice and peace.
19 August 2018
A bioengineering company releases a new product: Mungoes, human beings who have been stripped of all memories, feelings, and free will.
14 June 1993
Sleeper with a top notch cast in the story of a lone wolf logger who fights developers, bankers and the modern world to maintain his way of life.
11 May 2007
Quebec Bill Bohomme is a hardy schemer and dreamer, who, desperate to raise money to preserve his endangered herd through the rapidly approaching winter, resorts to whiskey-smuggling, a traditional family occupation.
21 August 2014
Freedom & Unity: The Vermont Movie is the first-ever documentary series about Vermont. The six-part film is a collaboration of over four dozen critically acclaimed Vermont filmmakers, led by award-winning filmmaker Nora Jacobson (“Delivered Vacant,” “My Mother’s Early Lovers,” “Nothing Like Dreaming”).
01 June 2015
A town doctor’s jealousy over his younger brother’s mysterious inheritance is compounded when they both fall for the same woman.
22 March 2002
The Year That Trembled is a coming-of-age story set in 1970 in the shadow of Kent State that focuses on a group of young people facing the Vietnam Draft Lottery.
20 February 2015
APPROACHING THE ELEPHANT is a feature-length documentary about The Teddy McArdle Free School, where classes are optional and rules are made by democratic vote.
16 January 2015
In 1956, ten-year-old Austen Kittredge is sent to live on his grandparents’ Vermont farm, where he experiences wild adventures and uncovers long-festering family secrets.
23 June 2023
The tale of an individualist proletarian in a time marked by the rise of mass political movements. In early 20th-century Italy, illiterate sailor Martin Eden seeks fame as a writer while torn between the love of a bourgeois girl and allegiance to his social class.
23 November 1999
A Vermont town in the 1950s hires a new minister based on his war record, but are shocked, when he shows up, to find that he is black.
