Lorre opening Lowell Film Festival April 3, 2009!

Lorre will be the Guest Speaker for the kickoff reception of the Lowell Film Festival, April 3, 2009 at the Revolving Museum, 22 Shattuck Street in Lowell MA from 6-7:30pm. She will talk about her theory that as soon as grass is visible in the yard, it means it's going to snow again. Okay, really she'll be talking about MILLIES, of course, the process and the patience in this pursuit. She will also show the existing MILLIES videos to an enthusiastic, film-loving crowd. Should be a fantastic and intimate evening in a gorgeous mill city.

For more information on the film festival itself, visit:
http://www.lowellfilms.org

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Behind The Scenes Pics

Added some pictures to the Millies page on Facebook, sometimes those pics are different than pictures on the official Millies web site so do check in on Facebook if you want to see some new shots.

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Millies group now on Facebook

The title of this post is pretty cut and dried: we now have a MILLIES group on Facebook. Please join the group and invite your friends to Be A Millie!

Join the MILLIES page on Facebook!

Companies contributing to MILLIES

Our links page has been updated with the many companies who've given goods and services to MILLIES. Please drop them a line thanking them for their support of this film. It matters!

http://www.milliesmovie.com/links.html

Lorre @ Hillview Montessori School

The exceptional students at Hillview Montessori in Haverhill MA provided a terrific reception to Lorre's speaking engagement there on Jan. 13, 2009. The student reviewers summed it up like this:

Lights, Camera, Action!

Independent filmmaker Lorre Fritchy recently visited Hillview Montessori Charter Public School in Haverhill. The students there recently performed a play based on the Bread and Roses Strike of 1912. She talked about a movie that is in production called “Millies” which is about a group of mill worker ghosts that come back from the Bread and Roses Strike to help a bankrupt mill owner in modern times when her future threatens their past.

“I thought that the plotline was cool because it has ghosts in it,” said Grady Maguire. Lorre also talked about the importance of preserving history and how she didn’t like how people demolished mill buildings.

“She was a very good role model,” said Abby K. To show us some of her other work she showed us a clip from the first movie she completed called “Sandy ‘Spin’ Slade Beyond Basketball”. ”Millies” is her third movie. We can’t wait to see it!

By:
CJ Axford and Kevin Greene
HVM Upper Elementary Students


To have Lorre speak at your school, company, or organization, visit the Filmmaker Speaking Series page at MasterPeace Productions.

Millies exhibit comments

Thanks so much for your wonderful comments in the Comment Book from the Assassination of Lincoln exhibit. It was a grueling effort to get that exhibit up and running, as is the process of taking it all apart. So your positive support means a great deal, on both the exhibit and the film.

A common theme in your comments was how important it was to document this process and capture the past. I appreciate you other Millies out there, believe me. You keep me going during the times when the tasks to be done are mountainous.

Eventually, I will have the majority of prints from the exhibit up on the web site for purchase, but for now we've got highlights to tide you over ;-)

http://www.milliesmovie.com/lincoln_photos.html

Video From The Set of MILLIES The Movie

From the mill rooftops of Lawrence, Massachusetts on our first day filming exteriors for MILLIES:

Lincoln Foods prints for sale on MILLIES web site

A newsletter will be coming soon, but I wanted to let you know that a selection of prints from our successful "Assassination of Lincoln" photo exhibit are now on sale in our Mill Store:

http://www.milliesmovie.com/lincoln_photos.html

Thanks to those of you who came out to join us in the raw and nasty ice storm for our fantastic reception. And to those of you who visited the exhibit on your own. It was our last big and creative event of 2008, giving us renewed energy for MILLIES as 2009 begins.

New Video on YouTube

Didn't think we'd do an event without a video to accompany it,did you? "The Assassination of Lincoln: Teardown of a Century-Old Mill" is now available for viewing on YouTube. Most of the images captured are of a place that no longer exists except on film. Very interested to hear your comments on that one.

Photo Exhibit - prints coming soon

Thanks to all of you who attended our opening reception for the Lincoln Foods photo exhibit last week. People were unbelievably generous with their comments, time, and participation. We raffled off some 5x7 and 8x10 copies of the more than 50 prints that appear in the exhibit. "The Assassination of Lincoln: Teardown of a Century-Old Mill" show runs through Dec. 19 at essex art center, 56 island street, lawrence ma from M-F 10-6. Sign the guest book if you get to check it out! For more info., visit our Events page.

Many people have expressed interest in ordering prints, and I am working on getting that available to you online in our Mill Store. One ginormous thing at a time ;-)

Happy Holidays!
~Lorre