Jay Craven
Directing
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.
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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 .
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Known for
Disappearances
May 11, 2007
The Year That Trembled
March 22, 2002
Where the Rivers Flow North
June 14, 1993
Approaching the Elephant
February 20, 2015
A Stranger in the Kingdom
November 23, 1999
Northern Borders
January 16, 2015
Wetware
August 19, 2018
Peter and John
June 1, 2015
Blood Brothers
March 8, 2021
Martin Eden
June 23, 2023
Freedom & Unity: The Vermont Movie
August 21, 2014
Lost Nation
June 1, 2024
Behind the camera12
- 2024Lost Nation Writer, Director
- 2023Martin Eden Writer, Director
- 2021Blood Brothers Producer, Writer, Director
- 2018Wetware Writer, Director, Producer
- 2015Peter and John Director
- 2015Approaching the Elephant Producer
- 2015Northern Borders Director, Editor, Screenplay
- 2014Freedom & Unity: The Vermont Movie Director
- 2007Disappearances Writer, Director
- 2002The Year That Trembled