Justin Mills

Preserving Testimony: Notes on a Holocaust Archive

On the practice of recording long-form Holocaust survivor testimony for a private archive held in trust with the families...

Riding the C&O Canal: Lawrence Justin Mills on Cycling, History, and the Stories Roads Leave Behind

The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal runs 184.5 miles from Washington D.C. to Cumberland, Maryland — a nineteenth-century engineering project that became one of the most historically layered trails in the...

Justin Mills on Ikaria: What a Greek Island Taught a Maryland Filmmaker About Storytelling

Justin Mills, a filmmaker based in Silver Spring, Maryland, has long been drawn to places where daily life carries the weight of something larger. Ikaria — a small Greek island in the Aegean — is one...

Witnessing Carlos Mauricio

On filming Carlos Mauricio — a Salvadoran civil war survivor — and what long-form documentary witness actually requires...

Filming the 2009 FMLN Election Victory Celebration in Maryland

In March 2009, the FMLN won the Salvadoran presidential election for the first time in the party’s history. Mauricio Funes became El Salvador’s first left-wing president after nearly two...

Behind the Extended Trailer for El Camino de la Sombra

The extended trailer for El Camino de la Sombra — The Path of the Shadows — was the first public-facing piece of the documentary I released. At nearly four minutes, it was longer than most trailers...
Scroll to Top