Directing

Jay Craven

Place of birth

Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Known for

Directing

Credits

21 titles

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 …

Known for

Blood Brothers poster
NR

Two brothers’ relationship strains when the younger one receives news of a strange inheritance complicating their competition for a mysterious young woman. The entire family reaches a breaking point brought about by startling revelations about their mother’s fidelity, love, friendship and betrayal... Based on Guy de Maupassant’s 19th century seaside novel, Pierre et Jean!

Blood Brothers

2021

Disappearances poster
5.1

Quebec Bill Bohomme is a hardy schemer and dreamer, who, desperate to raise money to preserve his endangered herd through the rapidly approaching winter, resorts to whiskey-smuggling, a traditional family occupation. Quebec Bill takes his son, Wild Bill, on the journey. Also Henry Coville, an inscrutable whiskey smuggler, and Rat Kinneson, Quebec Bill's perpetually disconsolate ex-con hired man. Together, they cross the border into vast reaches of Canadian wilderness for an unforgettable four days "full of terror, full of wonder."

Disappearances

2007

The Year That Trembled poster
3.7

The Year That Trembled is a coming-of-age story set in 1970 in the shadow of Kent State that focuses on a group of young people facing the Vietnam Draft Lottery.

The Year That Trembled

2002

Northern Borders poster
5.8

In 1956, ten-year-old Austen Kittredge is sent to live on his grandparents’ Vermont farm, where he experiences wild adventures and uncovers long-festering family secrets.

Northern Borders

2015

Wetware poster
3.8

A bioengineering company releases a new product: Mungoes, human beings who have been stripped of all memories, feelings, and free will. They are stoic, docile, perfect for menial labor. The lead engineer, however, has bigger ideas for them, and begins secretly implanting them with artificial memories and emotions—and even the ability to love.

Wetware

2018

Where the Rivers Flow North poster
6.4

A lone wolf logger fights developers, bankers and the modern world to maintain his way of life.

Where the Rivers Flow North

1993

Behind the camera

Blood Brothers poster
NR

Two brothers’ relationship strains when the younger one receives news of a strange inheritance complicating their competition for a mysterious young woman. The entire family reaches a breaking point brought about by startling revelations about their mother’s fidelity, love, friendship and betrayal... Based on Guy de Maupassant’s 19th century seaside novel, Pierre et Jean!

Blood Brothers

2021

Blood Brothers poster
NR

Two brothers’ relationship strains when the younger one receives news of a strange inheritance complicating their competition for a mysterious young woman. The entire family reaches a breaking point brought about by startling revelations about their mother’s fidelity, love, friendship and betrayal... Based on Guy de Maupassant’s 19th century seaside novel, Pierre et Jean!

Blood Brothers

2021

Blood Brothers poster
NR

Two brothers’ relationship strains when the younger one receives news of a strange inheritance complicating their competition for a mysterious young woman. The entire family reaches a breaking point brought about by startling revelations about their mother’s fidelity, love, friendship and betrayal... Based on Guy de Maupassant’s 19th century seaside novel, Pierre et Jean!

Blood Brothers

2021

Disappearances poster
5.1

Quebec Bill Bohomme is a hardy schemer and dreamer, who, desperate to raise money to preserve his endangered herd through the rapidly approaching winter, resorts to whiskey-smuggling, a traditional family occupation. Quebec Bill takes his son, Wild Bill, on the journey. Also Henry Coville, an inscrutable whiskey smuggler, and Rat Kinneson, Quebec Bill's perpetually disconsolate ex-con hired man. Together, they cross the border into vast reaches of Canadian wilderness for an unforgettable four days "full of terror, full of wonder."

Disappearances

2007

Disappearances poster
5.1

Quebec Bill Bohomme is a hardy schemer and dreamer, who, desperate to raise money to preserve his endangered herd through the rapidly approaching winter, resorts to whiskey-smuggling, a traditional family occupation. Quebec Bill takes his son, Wild Bill, on the journey. Also Henry Coville, an inscrutable whiskey smuggler, and Rat Kinneson, Quebec Bill's perpetually disconsolate ex-con hired man. Together, they cross the border into vast reaches of Canadian wilderness for an unforgettable four days "full of terror, full of wonder."

Disappearances

2007

The Year That Trembled poster
3.7

The Year That Trembled is a coming-of-age story set in 1970 in the shadow of Kent State that focuses on a group of young people facing the Vietnam Draft Lottery.

The Year That Trembled

2002

The Year That Trembled poster
3.7

The Year That Trembled is a coming-of-age story set in 1970 in the shadow of Kent State that focuses on a group of young people facing the Vietnam Draft Lottery.

The Year That Trembled

2002

Northern Borders poster
5.8

In 1956, ten-year-old Austen Kittredge is sent to live on his grandparents’ Vermont farm, where he experiences wild adventures and uncovers long-festering family secrets.

Northern Borders

2015

Northern Borders poster
5.8

In 1956, ten-year-old Austen Kittredge is sent to live on his grandparents’ Vermont farm, where he experiences wild adventures and uncovers long-festering family secrets.

Northern Borders

2015

Wetware poster
3.8

A bioengineering company releases a new product: Mungoes, human beings who have been stripped of all memories, feelings, and free will. They are stoic, docile, perfect for menial labor. The lead engineer, however, has bigger ideas for them, and begins secretly implanting them with artificial memories and emotions—and even the ability to love.

Wetware

2018

Wetware poster
3.8

A bioengineering company releases a new product: Mungoes, human beings who have been stripped of all memories, feelings, and free will. They are stoic, docile, perfect for menial labor. The lead engineer, however, has bigger ideas for them, and begins secretly implanting them with artificial memories and emotions—and even the ability to love.

Wetware

2018

Wetware poster
3.8

A bioengineering company releases a new product: Mungoes, human beings who have been stripped of all memories, feelings, and free will. They are stoic, docile, perfect for menial labor. The lead engineer, however, has bigger ideas for them, and begins secretly implanting them with artificial memories and emotions—and even the ability to love.

Wetware

2018

Where the Rivers Flow North poster
6.4

A lone wolf logger fights developers, bankers and the modern world to maintain his way of life.

Where the Rivers Flow North

1993

Approaching the Elephant poster
7.0

APPROACHING THE ELEPHANT is a feature-length documentary about The Teddy McArdle Free School, where classes are optional and rules are made by democratic vote. Summerhill, founded 90 years ago by A. S. Neill, was the first free school - now there are more than 200 worldwide. Approaching the Elephant chronicles a free school in the making - spanning two years, from Teddy McArdle's first day when there were no rules or classes, through the changing of the school's director and the expulsion of a student by democratic vote, to the last day of the second year, APPROACHING THE ELEPHANT is an intimate portrait of a small group of people from a range of educational backgrounds, come together to forge a place where children are treated as equals, at liberty to spend their days however they please.

Approaching the Elephant

2015

A Stranger in the Kingdom poster
3.5

A Vermont town in the 1950s hires a new minister based on his war record, but are shocked, when he shows up, to find that he is black.

A Stranger in the Kingdom

1999

Freedom & Unity: The Vermont Movie poster
NR

Freedom & Unity: The Vermont Movie is the first-ever documentary series about Vermont. The six-part film is a collaboration of over four dozen critically acclaimed Vermont filmmakers, led by award-winning filmmaker Nora Jacobson (“Delivered Vacant,” “My Mother’s Early Lovers,” “Nothing Like Dreaming”). Sponsors include the Vermont Arts Council, Vermont Community Foundation, Vermont Humanities Council, Bay and Paul Foundation, John M. Bissell Foundation, Green Valley Media, National Life of Vermont Foundation, and the Vermont Country Store. Our advisors are well-known historians, educators, curators, authors, artists, politicians, and activists.

Freedom & Unity: The Vermont Movie

2014

Lost Nation poster
NR

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.

Lost Nation

2024

Lost Nation poster
NR

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.

Lost Nation

2024

Martin Eden poster
NR

The tale of an individualist proletarian in a time marked by the rise of mass political movements. In early 20th-century Italy, illiterate sailor Martin Eden seeks fame as a writer while torn between the love of a bourgeois girl and allegiance to his social class.

Martin Eden

2023

Martin Eden poster
NR

The tale of an individualist proletarian in a time marked by the rise of mass political movements. In early 20th-century Italy, illiterate sailor Martin Eden seeks fame as a writer while torn between the love of a bourgeois girl and allegiance to his social class.

Martin Eden

2023

Peter and John poster
1.0

A town doctor’s jealousy over his younger brother’s mysterious inheritance is compounded when they both fall for the same woman.

Peter and John

2015