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Dec 18, 2023 · Renzi: It wasn’t automatic to get the money for [Matewan], but not because of the politics of it really. It was a good time to be making movies, because this American independent thing had really grown up as a way to feed home video, which was a brand new phenomenon.
Nov 4, 2020 · This October 7th, acclaimed independent film director John Sayles and producer Maggie Renzi are teaming up with The West Virginia Mine Wars Museum to host a 30th Anniversary Film Screening of Matewan at the Labelle Theatre in South Charleston (311 D Street).
Jan 2, 2024 · Matewan is a work of historical fiction, but it isn’t a straightforward build-up to a heroic shoot-out, justice triumphs, roll credits. Instead, Sayles and producer Maggie Renzi use the unionization struggles in the Appalachian coalfields at the beginning of 1920 as the setting for a perennial question that (crucially) the film doesn’t ...
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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Dec 13, 2023 · In 1983 novelist, screen writer, and independent film director John Sayles and his producer, Maggie Renzie, came to West Virginia to produce a film about the Matewan Massacre. The massacre was a real event that took place in 1920 in Matewan, on the Tug Fork in Mingo County, during the West Virginia Mine Wars.
Mar 30, 2018 · We're so excited to shared that Producer Maggie Renzi and Director John Sayles are our newest Mine Wars Museum members! Thanks to Maggie and John for joining the team and for sharing their...
John Sayles (director) , Maggie Renzi (producer) Criterion Collection, DVD: two discs. Written and directed by John Sayles, this wrenching historical drama recounts the true story of a West Virginia coal town where the local miners’ struggle to form a union rose to the pitch of all-out war in 1920.
