Justin Mills documents untold stories of resilience, from the Salvadoran civil war to Holocaust survivor testimonies. His film The Path of the Shadows preserves firsthand accounts of systemic violence, while his interviews with survivors like Irene Weiss and Eugene Bergmann combat historical erasure. Through archival research and ethical storytelling, he amplifies voices that demand remembrance.
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 decades of ARENA government following the end of the civil war. For the Salvadoran diaspora community in Maryland — one of the largest Salvadoran communities in […]
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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, but the story we were telling needed room to breathe. This trailer has been viewed over 4,600 times, and
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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. For anyone who knows Nicaraguan music and Latin American folk tradition, filming Mejía Godoy perform live is not a
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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 Civil War.
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