Jay Craven is a Vermont

Vermont

Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state ranks 43rd in land area, , and 45th in total area. Its population according to the 2010 census, 630,337, is the second smallest in the country, larger only than Wyoming. It is the only New England...

 film director

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

, screenwriter

Screenwriter

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 and professor of film studies at Marlboro College

Marlboro College

Marlboro College is a small, coeducational, alternative liberal-arts college in Marlboro, Vermont, USA.-History:Marlboro College was founded in 1946 by Walter Hendricks for returning World War II veterans on Potash Hill in Marlboro, Vermont. The school's operation was initially financed using money...

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Jay Craven is known for creating award winning films on modest budgets, adopting all of the novels of author Howard Frank Mosher

Howard Frank Mosher

Howard Frank Mosher is a contemporary author of eleven books: ten fiction and one non-fiction. Much of his fiction takes place in the mid-20th century and all of it is set in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, a region loosely defined by the three counties in the northeastern corner of the state...

 to film. He often casts from a regular troupe of Vermont actors including Tantoo Cardinal

Tantoo Cardinal

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 and Rusty DeWees

Rusty DeWees

Rusty DeWees is an American actor, producer and writer. He works regionally in Vermont, off off broadway, television and Films...

, but has also worked with Rip Torn

Rip Torn

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 and Kris Kristofferson

Kris Kristofferson

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. 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

Boston University

Boston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers...

 for undergraduate studies where he studied and developed a lifelong friendship with Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn was an American historian, academic, author, playwright, and social activist. Before and during his tenure as a political science professor at Boston University from 1964-88 he wrote more than 20 books, which included his best-selling and influential A People's History of the United...

. He later went on to Goddard College

Goddard College

Goddard College is a private, liberal arts college located in Plainfield, Vermont, offering undergraduate and graduate degree programs. Goddard College currently operates on an intensive low-residency model...

. He lives in the Northeast Kingdom

Northeast Kingdom

The Northeast Kingdom is a term used to describe the northeast corner of the U.S. state of Vermont, comprising Essex, Orleans and Caledonia Counties and having a population of 62,438. In Vermont, the written term "NEK" is often used. The term is attributed to the late George D. Aiken, former...

 with his family .

Filmography

• The Expendables 2 (Producer's Credit) (20??)
• Judgement Ridge (in development) (20??)
• Disappearances
  Disappearances (film)
  Disappearances is a 2006 film by director Jay Craven starring Kris Kristofferson....
  
  (2006)
• The Year That Trembled (2002)
• In Jest (1999)
• Stranger in the Kingdom (1998)
• Where the Rivers Flow North (1994)

External links

• [Jay Craven at Marlboro College http://www.marlboro.edu/academics/faculty/craven_jay/]
• http://www.kingdomcounty.org/about_us/jay_craven.php