Starring Bruce Dern ("Coming Home,""Nebraska") & Geneviève Bujold ("Anne of a Thousand Days, "King of Hearts"), Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick ("Moonrise Kingdom") & Jessica Hecht ("Sideways," "Friends").

Based on Howard Frank Mosher's award-winning novel, Northern Borders tells the story of ten year-old Austen Kittredge, who is sent to live on his grandparents' Kingdom County Vermont farm, where he has wild adventures and uncovers long-festering family secrets. It's 1956 and Austen experiences rural Kingdom County as a place full of eccentric people including his stubborn grandparents, whose thorny marriage is known as the Forty Years War. Initially feeling stuck in this fractured household, young Austen plans a quick exit but ends up stranded with no choice but to navigate and endure.  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.

Movies from Marlboro, it was produced on a lean budget, in a collaboration of young filmmaking professionals, students and recent graduates, working in substantial roles in every level of production.