FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Date: August 15, 2014

Contact: Mary Ellen Reis
Peacham Caf
P.O. Box 16
Peacham, VT 05862
Phone: 802-473-0390
mel@novastaza.com


JAY CRAVENS NORTHERN BORDERS TO PLAY BENEFIT SCREENING
TO SUPPORT THE PEACHAM CAF


Award-winning director Jay Craven will present his most recent Vermont film, Northern
Borders, at the Peacham Congregational Churchto benefit the new Peacham Caf. The
screening will take place on Saturday, September 6
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at 7 p.m. and it will include an introduction
and post-film discussion led by director Craven.

Northern Borders was shot in Vermont and New Hampshire, and is based on the award-winning
Howard Frank Mosher novel 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. Set in 1956, 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 Vermonts wildness, its sublime beauty, a haunted
past, and an aura of enchantment.

Northern Borders stars Academy Award nominees Bruce Dern (Nebraska) and Genevive
Bujold (Anne of a Thousand Days, King of Hearts) and Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick (Moonrise
Kingdom and Before Midnight). The picture also features 2010 Tony Award nominee Jessica
Hecht (Sideways, Friends), John Shea, Jay O. Sanders, Mark Margolis, Tom Bodett, Rusty
Dewees, and John Rothman. The musical score was composed and performed by Judy Hyman and
Jeff Claus of the musical Horse Flies. Additional period source music cues were provided by New
Hampshire-based Great Meadows Music as written and/or performed by Bob McQuilllen, Randy
Miller, Laurie Andres, Cathy Whitesides, and John Taggert

Northern Borders was produced as the result of a unique partnership between Jay Cravens 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. A 2014 Movies from Marlboro project,
Peter and John, based on the novel by Guy de Maupassant, was shot this spring on Nantucket and
also utilized collaborations between professionals and students.

Jay Cravens six feature films include Disappearances (2007 with Kris Kristofferson) and Where
the Rivers Flow North (1994 with Rip Torn and Tantoo Cardinal). His films have played 58
countries and 73 festivals, including Sundancewith special screenings at The Smithsonian,
Lincoln Center, and others. Cravens commitment to New England place-based filmmaking was
recently profiled by Orion Magazine that wrote, Jay Craven has come closer than any other
filmmaker to realizing Vachel Lindsays dream of a vital regional cinema that embodies the
character and genius of a place in all its mystery, magnificence, and pain. Lindsay was an
American poet, essayist, and film theorist who is considered the father of modern singing poetry,
in which verses are meant to be sung or chanted.


Tickets for the Northern Borders screening will be available at the door. Prices are $12 adults;
$10 seniors over 65; and $6 for students. For more information about Northern Borders dates
and venues contact Jay Craven (jcraven@marlboro.edu) or go to KingdomCounty.org.

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Photo Caption: Actor Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, who plays the young Austin, is shown speaking
to his grandfather, actor Bruce Dern. A humorous and sometimes startling coming-of-age story,
Northern Borders evokes Vermonts wildness, its sublime beauty, a haunted past, and an aura of
enchantment. The film will be screened as a benefit to support the Peacham Caf on September
6
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at the Peacham Congregational Church. The event starts at 7 p.m.