Project Pitch

Millies is the story of a troubled group of mill girls who return from 1912 to guide a bankrupt, modern-day mill owner when her future threatens their past.

All About the Project

Inspired by the most influential textile strike in American history - referred to long after the event itself as "The Bread & Roses Strike of 1912"- Millies will be filmed in the actual historic locations throughout the Immigrant City of Lawrence, Massachusetts in spring 2009. The people involved in the filmmaking process will be descendants of those who worked and slaved, loved or loathed their factory jobs in the massive brick mills that line the Merrimack River and the streets of Lawrence.

The writer-director, Lorre Fritchy, grew up in neighboring Methuen, Massachusetts, with a second home in Lawrence where she now lives and works. Her ancestors were Lawrencians who worked in these very mills, the lifeblood of the city for decades. And while the mill workers, ancestors, and some of the mills themselves are all but gone now, their dusty voices still whisper their stories to Lorre, and she is determined to tell them...

Genres

• Film > Drama
• Film > Drama > Historical drama