Jay Craven

Biography

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.

Known for

Approaching the Elephant

20 February 2015

The Year That Trembled

22 March 2002

The Year That Trembled

22 March 2002

Where the Rivers Flow North

A Stranger in the Kingdom

23 November 1999

Credits

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