Jay Craven brings his new film to Stowe Aug. 30

Jay Craven’s new seaside film drama, “Peter and John,” will screen at the Stowe Town Hall Theater, 67 Main St., on Tuesday, Aug. 30 at 7 p.m.

Craven, the director, will introduce the film and lead a question-and-answer period after the screening.

“Peter and John” is Craven’s eighth narrative film based in New England and has been nominated for a 2016 New England Emmy.

Craven’s previous pictures include five collaborations with Vermont writer Howard Frank Mosher, among them “Northern Borders,” with Bruce Dern and Genevieve Bujold; “Disappearances,” with Kris Kristofferson; and “Where the Rivers Flow North” with Rip Torn, Tantoo Cardinal and Michael J. Fox.

“Peter and John” is based on the 19th-century novel “Pierre et Jean” by Guy de Maupassant and is set in 1872 Nantucket, during the island’s “ghost period”— after the decline of whaling, before the rise of tourism, and in the New England shadow of the Civil War.

The film tells the story of two brothers whose relationship becomes strained when the younger one receives news of an unexpected inheritance — and both brothers become attracted to the same young woman who arrives on their island.

Maupassant’s novel was widely credited for helping to change the course of narrative fiction through its detailed psychological characterizations. Tolstoy and Nabokov both cited the novel as an influence.

Henry James wrote, “Monsieur de Maupassant has never before been so clever” and he called “Pierre et Jean” a “masterly little novel” for its potent themes of family, status, self-discovery and the lengths to which someone will go to reveal or suppress the truth. A trailer can be seen at bit.ly/peterandjohntrailer.

“Peter and John” stars 2014 Golden Globe winner Jacqueline Bisset (“Bullitt,” Truffaut’s “Day for Night”); Christian Coulson (“The Hours,” “Harry Potter: Chamber of Secrets”); Shane Patrick Kearns (“Blue Collar Boys”); Diane Guerrero (“Orange Is the New Black,” “Jane the Virgin”); and Gordon Clapp (“Matewan,” “Eight Men Out,” “Glengarry Glen Ross”).

“Peter and John” was shot on Nantucket and it was produced through the Movies From Marlboro program, a biennial film intensive semester jointly produced by Marlboro College and Kingdom County Productions.

For this production, 22 filmmaking professionals mentored and collaborated with 32 students from 12 colleges (Wellesley, Mount Holyoke, Boston College, University of Vermont, Lyndon State College, Dartmouth, Smith, Sarah Lawrence, Emerson, Antioch, London School of the Arts, and Marlboro). A 2016 Movies from Marlboro production, “Wetware,” has recently concluded principal photography (info at Movies.Marlboro.edu).

Craven’s seven feature films have played in 58 countries and at 73 festivals, including Sundance, with special screenings at the Smithsonian, Lincoln Center, Le Cinémathèque Française and the Constitutional Court of Johannesburg, among others.