Honeydripper, a film by John Sayles

This update is so overdue.

All summer I was all about Toronto. I’m so grateful to South by Southwest and Now Magazine for sponsoring the band, promoting HONEYDRIPPER and for working with Cameron to make a great party. Then Toronto happened and it was everything we wanted it to be.

We were thrilled with the response to the movie at that first screening. People win prizes, but there is also value in a detail: when I tell people that that audience clapped along with the end credits song and then gave our cast a standing ovation, they get it.
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John and I have been really busy finishing HONEYDRIPPER and setting it up for its release in early 2008.

Hold on:if I can wait, you can wait. We’re going to take the time we need to create awareness of HONEYDRIPPER so that when it comes out everybody is there at the door of their local theater, just waiting to be let in.
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Whew.We did it. John Sayles and I- along with a crew of about 100 and the usual giant Sayles ensemble, plus 400 fantastic Alabama extras- just wrapped HONEYDRIPPER. It’s John’s 16th feature and my 13th. Lucky 13th, I think.

We filmed it all on location in Alabama, based out of Greenville. Editing room opens in our garage Upstate on Jan 8.

And I’m damned if after all this work we’re going to see another movie sacrificed to the Petty God of Bad Distribution. We’re working with Emerging Pictures to see if we can reach these 2 simple goals: see the movie reach its audiences, and see the filmmakers pocket the profits.

Stay tuned as we try to remake a broken system. Help us if you can.

Maggie Renzi
Producer