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- It was based on the true story of Lalu Nathoy (Rosalind Chao), a woman born in northern China in 1853 who was sold by her father to a pair of bandits, smuggled into the United States around 1872, and enslaved in San Francisco before being relocated to Idaho.
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Nov 8, 1991 · Inspired by true stories, the movie is angry and impassioned, but it is also, somewhat surprisingly, a romance. For some measure of the progress of women, consider "1000 Pieces of Gold," set in the 19th century and telling the story of a Chinese woman sold from man to man as if she were property.
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- From Coast to Coast
- Finding ‘Thousand Pieces of Gold’
- Ironing Out The Story at The Sundance Institute Labs
- Rounding Up The Financing
- Casting Their Two Leads
- Shooting in Rural Montana
- Releasing The Film to The World
- Finding Their Footing Again
- Restoring The Film with Kino Lorber
Kenji Yamamoto and Nancy Kelly on the set of ‘Thousand Pieces of Gold.’ “When I met Nancy, she was a cowgirl who worked on a ranch,” Yamamoto says. Though Kelly had been raised in a working-class town in Massachusetts, she was always fascinated by horses. So when Gwendolyn Clancy, a friend she had met at her first film job, convinced her to come wo...
An 1894 photo of Lalu Nathoy, whose life was the basis for ‘Thousand Pieces of Gold.’ | Public Domain While working as documentary filmmakers in the early ’80s, Yamamoto and Kelly began attending the fledgling Utah/U.S. Film Festival (later renamed the Sundance Film Festival) in Park City, Utah. “It was only at the Egyptian [Theatre],,” Kelly recal...
Nancy Kelly and Anne Makepeace at the 1987 Screenwriters Lab. ©1987 Sundance Institute | Photo by Roger Christiansen Kelly, Makepeace, and Yamamoto were invited to bring Thousand Pieces of Gold to the Screenwriters Lab at the Sundance Resort in the summer of 1987, where they worked on the script with seasoned advisors including screenwriters Frank ...
After the labs, with the support of American Playhouse, Kelly and Yamamoto hit the ground in search of financing—a process that would take them a few years as they contended with the prejudices of studio executives in the late ’80s. They ultimately decided to produce the film themselves. “When we would both be at meetings, we stood out as the Japan...
Chris Cooper and Rosalind Chao star in Nancy Kelly’s ‘Thousand Pieces of Gold.’ | Kino Lorber Next, they tapped casting director Lora Kennedy—who Kelly had been introduced to by Sundance Institute’s Michelle Satter—to find their two lead actors. “I went down to have a meeting with [Lora],” Kelly says. “We were going to have lunch, and Lora walks in...
A scene from ‘Thousand Pieces of Gold.’ | Kino Lorber To both Kelly and Yamamoto, finding the right location for the shoot was crucial. “We looked at shooting in the foothills of California in existing gold-rush towns, but that would still take a huge amount of money because we’d have to put dirt on the streets, take down all the parking meters, an...
‘Thousand Pieces of Gold’ premiered at the San Francisco International Film Festival. The finished project had its world premiere at the San Francisco International Film Festival, where it received a standing ovation. A few days later, Kelly and Yamamoto hopped on a plane to France, bound for the Cannes market with Sandra Schulburg, founder of theI...
After their success with Thousand Pieces of Gold, the couple was ready to embark on another narrative feature. “In the ’90s, I think we developed three or four feature films,” Kelly recalls. One of them, When We Were Cowgirls, was a semi-autobiographical project about her friendship with Gwen Clancy. [Ed. note: Kelly mentions she has recently picke...
This new Kino Lorber restoration came about with the assistance of Kelly and Yamamoto’s old friend, Sandra Schulberg, who founded the preservation group IndieCollectin 2010 to save independent films that couldn’t be projected anymore. Schulberg also helped Kelly come around to marketing the film as a Western this time around. “Thank god no one’s li...
In San Francisco, she is auctioned off to an agent (Dennis Dun) for Hong King (Michael Paul Chan), a rapaciously greedy saloonkeeper in the gold-rush mining village of Warren's Diggens,...
"THOUSAND PIECES OF GOLD, by Ruthanne Lum McCunn, is the true story of a Chinese-American pioneer woman who overcomes poverty, footbinding, and slavery to build a life of relative freedom in the American Northwest.
Nov 1, 1991 · Thousand Pieces of Gold. In 1880s China, a girl is sold into marriage by her father. Rather than becoming a bride, Lalu ends up in a gold-mining town where she forges a path for her own freedom and, ultimately, true love.
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Feb 9, 2017 · The real Polly Beamis around 1894. While Thousand Pieces of Gold is not an easy film to watch, it’s rewarding due to an amazing performance by Rosalind Chao and a subtle screenplay that exposes issues in the past, holding them up so we can see how they compare with the sexism and racism of today.
"THOUSAND PIECES OF GOLD, by Ruthanne Lum McCunn, is the true story of a Chinese-American pioneer woman who overcomes poverty, footbinding, and slavery to build a life of relative freedom in the American Northwest.
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