Directing
Community Rating
4.6
TMDB estimate
Born in
Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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.

Lost Nation
as Writer, Director
2024

Martin Eden
as Writer, Director
2023

Blood Brothers
as Producer, Writer, Director
2021

Wetware
as Writer, Director, Producer
2018

Peter and John
as Director
2015

Approaching the Elephant
as Producer
2015

Northern Borders
as Director, Editor, Screenplay
2015

Freedom & Unity: The Vermont Movie
as Director
2014

Disappearances
as Writer, Director
2007

The Year That Trembled
as Writer, Director
2002

A Stranger in the Kingdom
as Director
1999

Where the Rivers Flow North
as Director
1993