Award-winning director Jay Craven will present his most recent Vermont film, Northern Borders, at Red River Theatres, Aug. 21-24 at 7 p.m. each night. The Aug. 21 screening will include an introduction and post-film discussion led by director Craven.
Northern Borders was shot in Vermont and New Hampshire, and it’s based on the award-winning Howard Frank Mosher novel that was recently declared by The London Guardian as one of the “Top Ten Books Featuring Grandparents.” It tells the story of ten year-old Austen Kittredge, who is sent to live on his grandparents’ Kingdom County Vermont farm, where he has wild adventures and uncovers long-festering family secrets. It’s 1956 and Austen experiences rural Kingdom County as a place full of eccentric people including his stubborn grandparents, whose thorny marriage is known as the Forty Years War. Initially feeling stuck in this fractured household, young Austen plans a quick exit but ends up stranded with no choice but to navigate and endure. A humorous and sometimes startling coming-of-age story, Northern Borders evokes Vermont’s wildness, its sublime beauty, a haunted past, and an aura of enchantment.
Northern Borders stars Academy Award nominees Bruce Dern (“Nebraska”) and Geneviève Bujold (“Anne of a Thousand Days,” “King of Hearts”) and Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick (“Moonrise Kingdom” and “Before Midnight”).
Northern Borders was produced as the result of a unique partnership between Jay Craven’s non-profit Kingdom County Productions and Marlboro College, where Craven teaches film. The picture was made during a semester-long film intensive, Movies from Marlboro, where 20 young professionals worked with 34 students from 15 colleges.
Tickets for the Northern Borders screening will be available at the door. For more information about Northern Borders dates and venues contact Jay Craven (jcraven@marlboro.edu) or go to KingdomCounty.org.
