Wednesdays with Jay Craven: Northern Borders

Wednesdays with Jay Craven, a series of four evenings with filmmaker and Marlboro College professor Jay Craven, concludes on Wednesday, February 15 at 7 p.m. with a staged reading of Craven’s new screenplay based on Howard Frank Mosher’s novel, Northern Borders, which will simultaneously be in production in and around Marlboro, Vermont, through a filmmaking collaboration involving 10 professionals and 25 college students.

Wednesdays with Jay Craven is part of a larger collaboration underway this winter between BMAC and Marlboro College, centered on the exhibit Four Eyes: Art From Potash Hill, featuring work by Marlboro College visual arts faculty members Martina Lantin, Cathy Osman, Tim Segar, and John Willis.

Admission: $6 for adults; $4 for seniors; $3 for students; free for BMAC members and Marlboro College students, faculty, and staff.

Jay Craven is an award-winning producer, independent film writer/director, and community arts activist. His feature films include Disappearances (with Kris Kristofferson, Genevieve Bujold, Charlie McDermott), A Stranger in the Kingdom (with Ernie Hudson, David Lansbury, Martin Sheen), The Year That Trembled (with Fred Willard, Jonathan Brandis, Marin Hinkle, Martin Mull), and Where the Rivers Flow North (with Rip Torn, Tantoo Cardinal, Michael J. Fox). Craven has also made six documentaries and the public television comedy series, Windy Acres, winner of two New England Emmys.

Craven is the recipient of the Vermont Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts and a MacDowell Colony Fellowship. His films have been licensed in 43 countries and have played more than 50 international film festivals including Sundance, South By Southwest, and AFI: Fest. They have sold more than 300,000 DVDs, played TV outlets including Showtime, Starz, PBS, Sundance Channel, and Disney Channel, and they have been licensed in 43 countries. Special screenings include the Smithsonian, Lincoln Center, Anthology Film Archives, the American Film Institute, Art Institute of Chicago, Harvard Film Archives, George Eastman House, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, Jerusalem Cinematheque, Cinémathèque Française, the Constitutional Court of Johannesburg, and La Cinemateca Nacional de Venezuela. His most recent film, Disappearances, was selected by the American Film Institute, President’s Committee for the Arts and Humanities, and National Endowment for the Arts as one of seven U.S. films to travel internationally through the AFI’s first-ever international cultural exchange program, AFI: Project 20/20. Craven also directs the film studies program at Marlboro College.