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 nineteen is now in formation and will include 12-year old Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick (Everything’s Fine, The Omen, Sex in the City), Bill Raymond (Michael Clayton, The Wire), 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.
As students participating in this Film Intensive, you will be expected to take the program’s core courses: 1. The Literature of Northern New England
2. Northern Images on Screen
3. Northern Borders Pre-Production
4. Northern Borders Production
There will also be electives in Screenwriting and a film studies class, Producing Low Budget Indie Films: On Camera and Behind the Scenes.
Students will earn not only college credit but also professional film credit, working in substantial film crew positions, based on their interest and ability. Crew positions open to students include actors, camera operators, unit directors, producers, script supervisor, sound, art directors, prop master, set designers, set dressers, editors, still photographer, assistant directors, grips, electrics, assistant camera, location manager, casting director, costumes, sound editors, scenic artists, hair and make-up, production managers, assistants, behind-the-scenes documentary filmmakers, and more.
For more on the projects curriculum or to learn more about the intensive visit us at Movies for Marlboro.
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