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'The Mills of Power' is a Canadian television miniseries, directed by Claude Fournier.[https://www.filmsquebec.com/films/tisserands-du-pouvoir-claude-fournier/ "Tisserands du pouvoir, Les Film de Claude Fournier"]. 'Films du Qubec', April 30, 2009. A historical drama, the film centres on the historical phenomenon of French Canadians who emigrated to New England for work opportunities, tracing their gradual loss of socioeconomic status, political power and cultural identity through the story of a community of French Canadian Americans in Woonsocket, Rhode Island."Homespun saga promises to draw homegrown crowd". 'Montreal Gazette', October 23, 1988. The story is centred mainly on three families: the working class Lamberts, who worked in the dying textile mills and clung strongly to their Qubcois heritage; the more middle-class Fontaines, who integrated more successfully into mainstream American life; and the wealthy Roussels, an industrialist family from France who owned the mills and exploited the Qubcois immigrants."Claude Fournier's Les Tisserands du pouvoir Part I, II (La Revolte)". 'Cinema Canada', March/April 1989.

The cast included many of the most noted Quebec actors, including Gratien Glinas, Rmy Girard, Dominique Michel, Denise Filiatrault, Juliette Huot, Donald Pilon, Anne Ltourneau, Andre Pelletier, Michel Forget, Gabrielle Lazure, Olivette Thibault, Jocelyn Brub, Charlotte Laurier, Paul Almond and Andr Melanon,"U.S. mills ground up French identity". 'Toronto Star', October 28, 1987. as well as English Canadian actors John Wildman, Vlasta Vrna and John Boylan as anglophone characters.

The series premiered theatrically in 1988 as two films, 'Les Tisserands du pouvoir' and 'Les Tisserands du pouvoir 2: La rvolte', before airing as a six-part miniseries on Tlvision de Radio-Canada in 1989,"Weaving a historical epic out of Quebec's cultural fears". 'The Globe and Mail', November 26, 1988. and on CBC Television in 1990.Antonia Zerbisias, "Mills Of Power tells timely story of economic exile". 'Toronto Star', February 4, 1990. Fournier also published a novelization of the miniseries concurrently with the theatrical debut."Fate of Quebeckers in New England". 'Ottawa Citizen', December 10, 1988.

The series received two Genie Award nominations at the 10th Genie Awards in 1989, for Best Original Screenplay (Fournier, Michel Cournot and Marie-Jos Raymond) and Best Costume Design (Christine Cost, Michle Hamel)."Genie award nominees: complete list". 'Vancouver Sun', February 14, 1989. The series won four Prix Gmeaux in 1990, for Best Miniseries, Best Direction in a Drama Series (Fournier), Best Writing in a Drama Series (Raymond, Fournier, Cournot) and Best Actor in a Drama Series (Forget).

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