Jay Craven
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 lifelong friendship with Howard Zinn. He later went on to Goddard College. He lives in the Northeast Kingdom with his family .
Filmography
- The Expendables 2 (Producer's Credit) (20??)
- Judgement Ridge (in development) (20??)
- Disappearances (2006)
- The Year That Trembled (2002)
- In Jest (1999)
- Stranger in the Kingdom (1998)
- Where the Rivers Flow North (1994)
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External links
- Jay Craven at the Internet Movie Database
- [Jay Craven at Marlboro College http://www.marlboro.edu/academics/faculty/craven_jay/]
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