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Dec 18, 2023 · Cinema of Bread and Roses: An Interview with Maggie Renzi and John Sayles - Filmmaker Magazine. Matewan. by Ruairí McCann. in Directors, Interviews, Producers, Screenwriters. on Dec 18, 2023.
Dec 26, 2017 · Producer Maggie Renzi speaks at the 30th anniversary screening of “Matewan.” Sayles wrote the script for “Matewan,” he said, after hitchhiking through Kentucky and West Virginia as a young man in the late 1960s and early 1970s and hearing about the hidden history that was the Mine Wars.
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MAGGIE RENZI has been John Sayles’ creative partner since 1978 and she has produced nearly all of his movies.She has also acted in many of them. For John Sayles, Maggie Renzi produced Lianna, The Brother from Another Planet, Matewan, City of Hope, Passion Fish, The Secret of Roan Inish, Lone Star, Men With Guns, Limbo, Sunshine State, Silver City, Honeydripper, and Amigo.
Dec 13, 2023 · We're thrilled to celebrate the recognition of John Sayles and Maggie Renzi's beloved classic, Matewan, which has been selected for preservation to the National Film Registry. The powerful story of a...
Oct 29, 2019 · Used to working on low-budget, independent films, Sayles and producer Maggie Renzi eventually raised nearly $4 million to make Matewan. They filmed in Thurmond, West Virginia, over a seven-week period in autumn 1986.
The director of MATEWAN and his longtime producing partner talk about the research process that led to this wrenching account of a coal miners’ strike. John Sayles and Maggie Renzi on MATEWAN on Vimeo
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Oct 28, 2019 · And Sayles’s longtime producing partner, Maggie Renzi, traces the origins of Matewan all the way back to the extensive research on coal mining that the writer-director had done for his 1977 novel Union Dues, which he had published before embarking on his career behind the camera.
