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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.
Oct 7, 2017 · On Saturday, Sayles, the consummate indie writer, director and maker of film, comes back to the Mountain State with his longtime partner and producer Maggie Renzi to celebrate the 30th...
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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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.
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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.
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.
Oct 23, 2019 · The commentary does cover some of the same material, but these documentaries ultimately benefit from getting multiple perspectives, this time from Sayles, actor/producer Maggie Renzi, production designer Nora Chavooshian, and then actors Chris Cooper, Mary McDonnell, David Strathairn, James Earl Jones and Will Oldham.
