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He also curates the Middlebury (VT) New Filmmakers Festival and the Woodstock (VT) Film Series, and produces the annual the Nantucket Young Playwrights residency Program for teen writers. He is currently preparing, LOST NATION, a new film set during the turbulent period of the American Revolution in Vermont.
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- Nantucket as A Campus
- Opening New Student Opportunities
- History Not Many People Know
- A Large and Expensive Project
While Craven lives and bases his Kingdom County Productions company in northern Vermont, his island ties are many, from his past participation in the Nantucket Film Festival to his current annual work on a spring playwriting project with White Heron and local high school students. He has family on Cape Cod and has often shown his films here. This s...
Semester Cinema can be a life-altering experience for the students. Blythe Alger-Meyer, a sophomore at Mount Holyoke College, wasn’t a film major but thought this program could help give her some type of bridge to the film industry. She was put on the documentary team with filmmaker Harry Mavromichalis (whose credits include “Olympia” on actress Ol...
The story of “Lost Nation” is what Zinn called Craven’s “passion project,” and what Craven acknowledged thinking about turning into a movie for more than 15 years. Soon after moving to Vermont in the early 1970s, Craven said, he was injured and spent much of his recovery time learning his new state’s history, including about Allen. Craven called Al...
Craven described “Lost Nation” as “a very, very ambitious project” and while he may have had bigger casts and bigger names for his early commercial films – such as “Disappearances” with Kris Kristofferson and “Where the Rivers Flow North” with Michael J. Fox and Rip Torn – “Lost Nation” is the largest for this college hybrid. There are 43 speaking ...
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. Director. Jay Craven. Writers. Jay Craven. Elena Greenlee. Stars. John Rothman. Gordon Clapp. Joe Perrino. See production info at IMDbPro. Add to Watchlist. Photos. Add photo. Top cast.
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Jun 6, 2022 · “Lost Nation,” is Craven’s 10 th feature film, and his fourth on Nantucket. He admits his approach to filmmaking is unusual in the age of high-budget movies and streaming services. In addition to a professional crew, Craven relies on 40 college students in an experiential semester cinema program.
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Jul 27, 2021 · 'Everybody is a part of it': Jay Craven's latest movie became Nantucket community project. Kathi Scrizzi Driscoll. Cape Cod Times. 0:04. 1:29. Trying to keep track of the necessary...
Jun 17, 2021 · (June 17, 2021) Jay Craven’s vision of a 1909 Jack London-style working-class waterfront was a movie set outside the Thomas Macy Warehouse and the American Legion Hall. His film, “Martin Eden,” based on the novel by the same name, is the only one at the 2021 Nantucket Film Festival that was shot on the island.
Apr 15, 2022 · Movie director Jay Craven has taken over parts of downtown Nantucket to film scenes for "Lost Nation. Merrily Cassidy/Cape Cod Times. 'Lost Nation,' a Revolutionary War-era movie by...
