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Amy Goodman asks legendary independent filmmaker John Sayles about the importance of making independent films. Over the past three decades, Sayles has directed 17 feature films, including The Return of the Seacaucus Seven, Matewan, Lone Star, and Eight Men Out. He has often used his films to tackle pressing political issues, as well as themes of of race, class, labor and sexuality. His newest film, Amigo, which opens in August, is set in the Philippines during the U.S. occupation. Sayles is also celebrated author. A winner of the O. Henry award, he has just published his first novel in 20 years. It's called, A Moment in the Sun, and it's a sprawling work which takes the turn of the 20th Century in its sights—from a white-racist coup in Wilmington, North Carolina, to the first stirrings of the motion-picture industry, to the bloody dawn of U.S. interventionism in Cuba and the Philippines.

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