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]

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