An Innovative Partnership

An Innovative Partnership with Marlboro College to Produce Northern Borders 

Kingdom County Productions (KCP) is partnering with Marlboro College for the production and release of a dramatic feature film, Northern Borders. The film is based on Howard Frank Mosher’s award-winning 1994 coming-of-age story that creates an alternately haunting, enchanting, and rough-hewn world where family mysteries run deep and an older generation fights to preserve a dying way of life.

Northern Borders will be produced and directed by Jay Craven working in collaboration with 12 professionals, 23 college students, 8 recent post-grads.  Our fully professional cast of includes 12-year old Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick (Everything’s Fine, The Omen, Sex in the City), Academy Award Nominee Bruce Dern (Coming Home, Silent Running, Monster), Academy Award Nominee Genevieve Bujold (Anne of the Thousand Days, Dead Ringers, Disappearances), 10 year-old Jacqueline Hennessy (Saturday Night Live, 30 Rock) along with emerging young talents like 16 year-old Irene Shamas of Brattleboro.

The making of Northern Borders marks a groundbreaking experiment in the realm of film school and teaching, launching a unique mode for intensive experiential education. This includes place-based arts and humanities learning and emphasizes mentorship and collaboration, not only between students and professionals, but between Marlboro College and a dozen other colleges––among them Wellesley College, Cornell University, Mount Holyoke, University of Connecticut, George Washington University, Smith College, Boston University, Champlain College, Wheaton College, Vassar College and Connecticut College.  Of the 14 visiting students to Marlboro, 7 grew up in the area and are returning to be a part of this deeply rooted Vermont filmmaking experience.