Garland Waller

Garland Waller is an assistant professor at Boston University in the College of Communications Department of Television and Film [1] and a documentary film producer. She began making documentaries while working at WBZ-TV in the 1980s,[2] including "Rape: An Act of Hate" narrated and hosted by Veronica Hamel [3]

Her first independent documentary was Small Justice: Little Justice in America's Family Courts [4] on the subject of child and family courts. Her second feature-length documentary No Way Out But One tells the story of Holly Collins, the first American to be granted asylum by the government of the Netherlands as a result of domestic violence.[5][6] "No Way Out But One" won the Distinguished Service Award for Excellence in the Media from IVAT,[7] an Accolade Award of Excellence [8] and a Telly Award,[9] and an Indie Award of Merit.[10]

Waller appears in the documentary film Seeking Happily Ever After,[11] is a public speaker on the subject of domestic violence. She has presented to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence,[12] the Battered Mothers Custody Conference,[13] the National Alliance of Professional Psychology Providers,[14] the Campaign for Commercial-Free Childhood Summit[15] and The Domestic Violence and Child Custody Forum in New Jersey.[16] She is the co-author of "Drawing Angels Near", a children's book,[17] contributed an essay to "Disorder in the Courts" [18] and a chapter titled: "The Yuck Factor, The Oprah Factor, and the ‘Stickness’ Factor Why the Mainstream Media Hasn’t Covered Family Court Injustice" for the reference book Domestic Violence, Abuse, and Child Custody: Legal Strategies and Policy Issues.[19]

She received her BS from the University of Virginia and her MS from Boston University.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 http://www.bu.edu/com/about-com/faculty/garland-waller/
  2. ↑ http://www.imaginenews.com/Archive/2004/FEB_2004/01_FEATURES/07_GARLAND.html
  3. ↑ http://www.worldcat.org/title/rape-an-act-of-hate/oclc/025377815
  4. ↑ http://www.smalljustice.com/
  5. ↑ http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2012/06/06/domestic-violence-out
  6. ↑ http://blogs.bostonmagazine.com/boston_daily/2011/10/25/no-way-out-but-one-boston-filmmaker/
  7. ↑ http://www.leadershipcouncil.org/1/med/media.html
  8. ↑ http://buquad.com/2012/03/29/no-way-out-but-one-screened-again-a-follow-up/
  9. ↑ http://www.tellyawards.com/winners/list/entries/?l=garland+waller&event=&category=2&award=3
  10. ↑ http://www.theindiefest.com/
  11. ↑ http://www.seekinghappilyeverafter.com/experts.html
  12. ↑ http://www.ncadv.org/conferences/Detailed%20Agenda%203.29.12.pdf
  13. ↑ http://www.batteredmotherscustodyconference.org/garland_waller.htm
  14. ↑ http://thecummingsfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Our-Broken-Family-Court-System-Conference-Agenda-2012.pdf
  15. ↑ http://www.commercialfreechildhood.org/events/2008/6thsummit.htm
  16. ↑ http://nowayoutbutone.com/?page_id=13
  17. ↑ http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3992073.Garland_Waller
  18. ↑ http://www.canowstore.org/store/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=CANOWSTORE&Product_Code=DITC&Category_Code=MVB0
  19. ↑ http://www.civicresearchinstitute.com/dvac.html
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