[ The Writers ]
Peter Goodrich, LL.B., Ph.D.
(Producer/Writer/Camera/Boom Operator) is a professor of Law and Director of Law and Humanities at the Cardozo Law School at Yeshiva University. He also teaches a course on film and the law at New York University. He was the founding dean of the department of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London, where he was also the Corporation of London Professor of Law. He has written extensively in legal history and theory in the areas of law, literature and semiotics and has authored 10 books. He is managing editor of Law and Literature, and on the editorial board of Law and Critique. Recent books include (with Mariana Valverde) Nietzsche and Legal Theory: Half-Written Laws (Routledge, 2006); and (with Lior Barshack and Anton Schutz) Law, Text, Terror (Routledge, 2006). His most recent book is Legal Emblems and the Art of Law (Cambridge University Press, 2014). He is Artistic Director of the documentary short Of Many (Spicy Icy Productions, 2014) which will premiere in the Tribeca Film Festival.
Linda G. Mills
(Producer/Co-Director/Writer/Subject) is the inaugural Lisa Ellen Goldberg Professor at New York University, where she is also Vice Chancellor for Global Programs and University Life. Mills is a prolific writer and researcher and her books and articles have been published by Princeton University Press, Basic Books, and Cornell and Harvard Law Reviews. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation. Her editorials have been published 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, Harpers and Queen, and Glamour. She has also appeared twice on The Oprah Winfrey Show and was a distinguished guest on the O'Reilly Factor.
Mills is the Co-Writer, Co-Director, and Co-Producer of Auf Wiedersehen, 'Til We Meet Again. The film's US debut was at the Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival in May 2010 where it won an Audience Award and was also seen at Philadelphia's Independent Film Festival in June 2010 where it was an Opening Night Selection and it received an honorable mention for Best Political Film. The film also premiered in Israel at the Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival in December 2010 and was seen at the Minneapolis Jewish Film Festival in April 2011. The film debuted in Paris in June 2011 followed by screenings in Brussels and in Vienna at the Vienna Jewish Film Festival, also in 2011. In May 2012, the film was shown at the Copenhagen Jewish Film Festival and in April 2013, the film was shown is Shanghai, China at the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum. Auf Wiedersehen, Til We Meet Again has been selected for Holocaust Education by the Austrian Ministry of Education, Arts, and Culture. In honor of Women's History Month in March 2014, Linda received a Certificate of Appreciation from the National Endowment for the Humanities and President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities, where Auf Weidersehen was screened twice.
Linda recently completed her second film, Of Many, which will have its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2014. The documentary short shares an inspiring narrative of friendship between an Orthodox Rabbi and Imam that unites a community around multifaith dialogue and action. You can find more information regarding Of Many here.