Battered Women, Abused Children, and Child Custody:   A NATIONAL CRISIS

Garland Waller is an award-winning producer-writer-director of nationally syndicated and local television and film programs. Small Justice: Little Justice in America’s Family Courts is her first independent production.

Her awards for Small Justice include:

• Best Social Documentary, NY International Independent Film Festival
• GirlFest Indie Award (2005- Hawaii)
• Award for Media Excellence from the 8^th International Conference on Family Violence (California)
• The Key West Indie Film Fest: Documentary Winner

Small Justice was screened at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston as part of their special film series on women filmmakers. It was also screened at the Coolidge Corner Theater as part of the Boston Film and Video Foundation’s "Meet the Director Series," and selections were shown at the NOW National Conference in St. Paul, Minnesota and at the NOW National Conference in Washington, D.C. The companion web site, www.smalljustice.com, has become a resource for battered women who are seeking to protect their children from abusive fathers.

Before producing Small Justice, Garland produced numerous documentaries and specials as a Special Projects Producer at WBZ-TV in Boston. Several of her documentaries were sold to the Arts and Humanities for national educational videos. (Rape: An Act of Hate, Suffer the Little Children, Kids and Drugs: A High Price to Pay, and A Family Secret: Adult Children of Alcoholics). She also produced the 26 part series Your Child 6-12, Rose Kennedy: An Intimate Portrait, and The Kennedy Women: An Intimate Portrait for Lifetime Television. Waller’s awards for producing television documentaries, entertainment specials, and children’s programs include:

• The Grand Prize at the International Film Festival of New York
• The Gold Prize at the Film Festival of New York
• The American Women in Radio and Television Award
• The Iris Award for Best Entertainment
• The Ohio State Award (2)
• New England Emmys (5)
• Action for Children's Television Award (2)
• UPI Award (Merit)
• American Film Festival (Honorable Mention)
• KidsFirst! Award

Currently Garland is executive producing Lia, a TV series on girls, science and technology.

www.liaonline.com. This is a multi-platform media project which includes a TV series, a book series, a mall tour and a museum exhibit as well as educational materials for classrooms across America.

As a professor at Boston University in the College of Communication, Waller teaches several TV producing classes as well as children's television. She also created Hothouse Productions, a class that operates as a production company with students completing client-driven programs and videos.

Garland Waller, was at one time the co-founder and president of Pink Bubble Productions, based in Concord, Massachusetts, produced children’s videos and books including Concert in Angel-Land, a nationally award-winning music video for pre-schoolers which originally aired on WCVB and is currently being distributed by MVP Home Entertainment. She co-authored Drawing Angels Near, published by Simon and Schuster/Pocket Books, November 1995, which was a Literary Guild and Crossings Book Club selection. Excerpts appeared in Family Circle and Woman's World.

Garland Waller has been a contributor to on line sites, including womensenews.org, the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund web site and the Family Education Network.

As president of the Board of Directors for Troubadour, an arts and literacy project in the many Massachusetts elementary schools, Ms. Waller is committed to quality educational programs for all children.

Ms. Waller received her undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia and her master’s degree from Boston University’s College of Communication. She is listed in Who's Who of American Women and Who's Who in Entertainment.