Semester Cinema, an educational film intensive produced in collaboration with Kingdom County Productions, will show its 2022 historical indie film epic, Lost Nation,  at the Shakespeare & Company Elayne P. Bernstein Theater – to celebrate the program’s upcoming move to Lenox. A Q&A with the film’s director, Jay Craven, will follow the film. Lost Nation is a Revolutionary War action-drama that follows the parallel and intersecting stories of Vermont founding father Ethan Allen and pioneering Black poet Lucy Terry Prince. In the film, Allen, played by Irish actor Kevin Ryan (Copper, Harry Wild), navigates thick entanglements with allies, enemies and family as he and his Green Mountain Boys lead the resistance to New York land claims in the fight to establish Vermont as the 14th state. Kenyan actress Eva Ndachi (Beautifully Broken) co-stars as Prince, who gained her freedom after 30 years of enslavement in Deerfield, Massachusetts and upset the status quo in her assertive use of early Vermont’s legal and political systems to protect her family and secure their land – when their closest neighbor moved to force them off their homestead.