America 250 Event: Lost Nation + Q&A with Director Jay Craven

About this event

Come to the Garden for a locally filmed movie Lost Nation filmed in Leyden with a Q&A after the film with the Director Jay Craven. Jay Craven’s newest film, “Lost Nation,” will screen at 6:30pm, Thursday, August 20th at The Greenfield Garden Cinema, co-sponsored by the Robertson Memorial Library in Leyden. Jay Craven’s newest film, “Lost Nation,” will screen at 6:30pm, Thursday, August 20th at The Greenfield Garden Cinema, co-sponsored by the Robertson Memorial Library in Leyden. Craven will appear at the screening for post-film Q & A. “Lost Nation” is a Revolutionary War-era action drama set in the early upstart Republic of Vermont. The picture stars Irish actor Kevin Ryan (“Copper,” Harry Wild”) as Vermont founding father and rebel schemer, Ethan Allen, who leads resistance to New Yorker land claims, launches an ill-fated attack on British forces in Montreal, and leads invasions by his Green Mountain Boys into Yorker strongholds of Guilford and Brattleboro. “Lost Nation’s” parallel and intersecting story features Kenyan actress Eva Ndachi (“Beautifully Broken”) as pioneering poet, Lucy Terry Prince, who was enslaved at the age of 3 in western Massachusetts, and settled a Guilford, Vermont homestead with her family during this same time. Like Ethan Allen, the Princes found themselves caught up in turbulent times that threatened their prospects for the land and freedom they sought. Like Allen, Lucy Prince upset the status quo in her assertive use of early Vermont’s legal and political systems to defend her family from encroachment, harassment, and intimidation. Prince family antagonist, aspiring Guilford politician John Noyes, is played by Rob Campbell (“The Crucible,” “The Unforgiven”). British intelligence chief and former Green Mountain Boy co-founder Justus Sherwood is played by Barry Del Sherman (“There Will Be Blood,” “American Beauty”) and Lucy Prince’s daughter Drucilla is played by young actress and Spelman College student, Karma Bridges, daughter of…