On the practice of recording long-form Holocaust survivor testimony for a private archive held in trust with the families...
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, 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...
Some stories demand to be told. For Lawrence Justin Mills, a filmmaker based in Silver Spring, Maryland, that story came in the form of Holocaust survivors whose testimonies had never been captured on...
On filming Carlos Mauricio — a Salvadoran civil war survivor — and what long-form documentary witness actually requires...
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...
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...
In 2013, I had the opportunity to film a full live performance by Luis Enrique Mejía Godoy in Washington, D.C. The concert ran for nearly an hour and twenty minutes, and I captured the entire thing...
Maryland filmmaker Lawrence Justin Mills describes making The Path of the Shadows, a documentary featuring survivor Carlos Mauricio, who was persecuted by Salvadoran government death squads during the...