Northern Borders Movies From Marlboro

Cast & Crew of Northern Borders

April 22rd, 2012:  This week, the cast and crew wrapped up the shooting of Northern Borders.  Thank you everyone for your hard work during the shoot!  Now the editing and post-production begin

Bruce Dern joins the cast of Northern Borders

Movie legend Bruce Dern has been cast in Jay Craven's upcoming film, Northern Borders.  Godson of Eleanor Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson, Bruce Dern chose performing over politics, amassing roles in dozens of feature films and television shows. His credits include Coming Home opposite Jon Voight and Jane Fonda, for which he earned an Academy Award® nomination, Silent Running, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? and such classic TV Westerns as Gunsmoke and Bonanza.  He one of the only actors in history to have killed John Wayne on screen.  Dern received a 2011 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor In A Drama Series for his role as Frank Harlow on HBO’s Big Love. He is the real-life father of actress Laura Dern.  He has been cast as the role of Austen Kittredge, Sr. - the grandfather.

Northern Borders Fundraising Events

Tuesday, April 3rd
with Jay Craven, Howard Frank Mosher & Bruce Dern
Brattleboro, VT
6:00 - 8:00 PM
Brattleboro Museum
Suggested Minimum Donation of $50
RSVP

Monday, April 9th
with Jay Craven, Howard Frank Mosher & Bruce Dern
Burlington, VT
6:30 - 8:00 PM
Main Street Landing
Suggested Minimum Donation of $50
RSVP

RSVP by calling 802-357-4616.  Or send a check to:
Kingdom County Productions
949 Somers Road
Barnet, VT 05821
(please indicate on the check which date you would like tickets)
 

About Northern Borders

Vists the NORTHERN BORDERS MOVIE WEBSITE for behind the scenes stories, photographs and more information!

Kingdom County Productions will partner with Marlboro College for the production of a dramatic feature film,
Northern Borders, based on Howard Frank Mosher’s award-winning coming-of-age story. Northern Borders creates
an enchanted and rough-hewn world where family mysteries run deep and an older generation resists change.
The film will be produced and directed by Jay Craven, working in collaboration with a professional cast and crew,
as well as with college students and recent post-grads from twelve Northeast colleges and universities. Our fully
professional cast will include Academy Award nominee Bruce Dern (Coming Home, They Shoot Horses Don't They?,
HBO's Big Love, Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie and Family Plot). Also, 12-year old Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick (Everybody’s
Fine, The Omen, Sex and the City), Bill Raymond (Michael Clayton, The Wire), and others including emerging talents
like 16 year-old Irene Shamas of Brattleboro.

Northern Borders tells the story of young Austen Kittredge, who is sent by his father to live on his grandparents’ Vermont farm, where he experiences wild adventures and uncovers long-festering family secrets.  It’s 1956, and the farm becomes a magical place for Austen, full of eccentric people like his rascal cousin and his stubborn but loving grandparents, whose thorny marriage is known as the Forty Years War. 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. The film will mark the region’s wobbly first steps toward rural electrification, and will take viewers to a fractious one-room schoolhouse and unruly town festival that turns upside down when an FBI agent shows up to accuse young Austen’s Aunt Liz of having robbed the local bank with her former husband, a descendant of notorious Jesse James. The film was previously in development by Academy Award winning producer Jake Eberts (Dances with Wolves, Gandhi) for Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. Writing for the New York Times Book Review, Fannie Flagg called Mosher’s novel “a touching and unforgettable portrait of a people and time.”

Learn more about Jay's ideas on this new collaborative filmmaking initiative  Click Here

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