NORTH SMITHFIELD – Season 2 of a documentary sequence on the historical past of 1 North Smithfield village and its place within the Industrial Revolution has been nominated for 3 Emmy awards by the Nationwide Academy of Tv Arts & Sciences Boston/New England Chapter.
Slatersville, America’s First Mill Village director Christian de Rezendes acquired nominations within the classes of Director of Lengthy Type Content material and Editor of Lengthy Type Content material, and Composer Stephen Gilbane was nominated for the Musical Association/Composition in Season 2.
Gilbane beforehand gained an Emmy in the identical class in 2023 for his work on Season 1 of the sequence. That season, which premiered on Rhode Island PBS in fall of 2022, featured 5 episodes overlaying the early years of the Slatersville Mill beneath the Slater household. For the Emmy-winning rating, Gilbane labored, partly, with the Budapest Scoring Orchestra to report a classical theme in Hungary.
Season 2 was licensed by streaming service Tubi and launched in 2024. It options three episodes overlaying a interval following World Warfare II, a largely affluent period in American historical past, and delves into the small village’s place within the bigger cultural and financial context.
Each Seasons 1 and a pair of, which embrace episodes 1 by 8, are presently out there on Tubi, Amazon Prime and Youtube Motion pictures & TV.
The awards ceremony for the forty eighth Boston/New England Emmys, in the meantime, is scheduled to happen in Boston, Mass. on Saturday, June 7.
de Rezendes, whose town-based manufacturing firm Breaking Branches Footage was additionally nominated for an award within the documentary class in 2023, mentioned he’s, “very excited,” for the 2025 occasion.
“I’m happy with our group, our crew,” he mentioned. “We look ahead to the ceremony June 7. We nonetheless have three extra episodes to complete, so will probably be fantastic to get to the end line.”
The director mentioned he’s now in talks with Rhode Island PBS a couple of doable return to the station for the discharge of the three episodes within the remaining season, which are actually in manufacturing. Episode 9, he mentioned, is about to premiere on the Woonsocket-based Museum of Work & Tradition on Labor Day.
de Rezendes famous that Episode 10 will deal with the Stamina Mill fireplace and different environmental points.
“That’s going to be fascinating,” he mentioned.
The work will carry an finish to a mission that started in 2011 with plans for a single documentary movie. Within the years since, de Rezendes has sifted by 1000’s of historic data with quite a few journeys overseas, and interviewed a whole bunch of individuals with information of what passed off. He’s famous that one of the difficult features of such a large enterprise was the group of fabric to create the story arc.
“As we get nearer and nearer down the road, we see how all the things is form of formulating,” de Rezendes mentioned. “Now, we all know what’s within the remaining three episodes. It’s only a query of finishing it.”
He mentioned he hopes to finish the mission by fall of subsequent 12 months however added, “these items by no means go a s quick as I would like them to.”
As soon as full, the 11 episode sequence will doc a 200 12 months interval of village historical past.
Hyperlinks to view his progress to this point could be discovered on the Slatersville web site here.
