Pothole Pictures 2024-2025 Fall-Winter Film Season
POTHOLE PICTURES PRESENTS:
“LOST NATION”
Friday & Saturday, FEBRUARY 21 AND 22, 2025 AT 7:30 PM
On the big screen in Memorial Hall Theater, 51 Bridge Street, Shelburne Falls
Meet Director, Jay Craven for a post-film Q&A on Saturday
Come early for Music at the Movies at 7:00 pm:
Friday: Celtic Jam with Steve Howland & Friends
Saturday: Sing Along – bring your “Rise up Singing” songbook!
Learn about the “Take a Seat” and “Name a Seat” campaigns
to raise funds for 100-year renovations to Memorial Hall!
On Feb. 21 and 22 at 7:30pm, Pothole Pictures will present LOST NATION as its “encore” film capping the regular 8-film Fall-Winter movie program with a final “meet the director” event before Memorial Hall Theater closes temporarily in the spring of 2025 for its first major renovation in 100 years. Director, Jay Craven, who has presented three other films in Memorial Hall, will be on hand for a post-film Q&A on Saturday evening. Tickets are $6 for adults, $4 for children 12 and under – cash at the door only. Arrive at 7:00 pm for a half hour of live “music at the movies” by local musicians – that includes YOU if you join the Saturday sing along!
LOST NATION offers a new telling of Vermont’s Revolutionary War history through the interlaced stories of two of the state’s contrasting figures from that era – Ethan Allen and Lucy Terry Prince. Allen, played by Irish actor, Kevin Ryan, was a farmer, writer, soldier, politician and Vermont founding father who fought for the state’s independence and resistance to control by New York, leading often clandestine guerilla raids with his Green Mountain Boys. Prince, portrayed by Eva Ndachi, was an African American poet whose 1746 poem, “Bars Fight” is considered the oldest known piece of literature by an African American. Her appeal to Vermont governor, Thomas Chittenden, to protect her family from racial persecution highlights the complex cross-currents within the national fight for freedom. Craven’s fictional story telling is built around known historical figures and events, though there is no record of Allen and Prince ever meeting in person.
Jay Craven has made 10 films in 30 years, often using a mix of students, seasoned
Vermont actors and bigger name stars through his program, Semester Cinema, which he has taught at various institutions including the now-defunct Marlboro College. Some of his other notable Vermont stories include, WHERE THE RIVERS FLOW NORTH (1994), DISAPPEARANCES (2006) and PETER AND JOHN (2015).