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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.
Matewan. 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.
- Joe Kenehan
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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Synopsis. It takes more than guns to kill a man. Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, “Matewan” celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named “Few Clothes” Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief heroically fight the power represented by a coal company ...
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- Cinecom Entertainment Group
- John Sayles
Oct 29, 2019 · Written and directed by John Sayles (Lone Star), 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.
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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.
