Linda G. Mills has been making films for the better part of the past decade. Auf Wiedersehen, 'Til We Meet Again, her first film, was an intimate portrait of her family's return to Vienna after her mother's escape from the Holocaust. Accompanied by her 10-year-old son, his irreverence and insights provide perspective into the inter-generational divides that increasingly mark this traumatic history. Auf Wiedersehen played at 8 film festivals across the world including Vienna and Jerusalem, receiving an audience award at the Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival, where it debuted.
Of Many, a short documentary about a rabbi and an imam's unorthodox friendship, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2014 to sold-out audiences, and has screened at more than a dozen other film festivals around the world including Abu Dhabi. Of Many has won two audience awards, the 2014 Grand Prize Humanitarian Award by the Best Shorts Competition and a 2015 Wilbur Award. Of Many has been invited to participate in the 2015 American Film Showcase.
Mills' short documentary, Better to Live, chronicles the story of university drama majors who tackle the travails of college life, from coming of age to coming out and from anxiety to suicide, as they build a reality show for 5000 college freshmen. Better to Live had its world premiere at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival.
In addition to filmmaking, Mills serves as Vice Chancellor for Global Programs and University Life at NYU; she is also the Lisa Ellen Goldberg Professor. Her research focuses on innovations in domestic violence treatment and is funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Justice. Her work has been published by Princeton University Press, Basic Books, and Cornell and Harvard Law Reviews, and in USA Today and the Los Angeles Times. She has been a blogger for Psychology Today and has been featured in the New York Times Magazine, People, Harper's & Queen, and Glamour. She has also appeared twice on The Oprah Winfrey Show, among other television appearances, including The O'Reilly Factor.
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