What is MATEWAN

  1. -Motion Picture
    Written & Directed by  
    John Sayles

  2. -Haskel Wexler was
    nominated for an Oscar

  3. -Based on True Events that happened in Matewan, WV

  4. -Shot in 1986 in     
    Thurmond, WV

  5. -Starred Oscar winners 
    Chris Cooper, Mary McDonnell and  Oscar nominees David Strathairn and  
    James Earl Jones


....But what came after?

  1. -Local filmmakers inspired

  2. -Local tourism flourished

  3. -Local communities changed

  4. -Future of WV film started on the set of MATEWAN

Help support this film with a tax deductible donation to the

Independent Film Project. Click this                      button and make an online donation.


Or you can download this FORM and mail it in with your donation.


Be sure to note the project name is THEM THAT WORK

and the project producer is JASON BROWN

When John Sayles came to West Virginia in 1986 to make his film MATEWAN, he left a lasting impact on the people and places that he touched. Over twenty years later, the people both in front and behind the camera talk about how they have been affected by being a part of this classic film.

 
 
 
 
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