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POSITION: Assistant Professor of Digital Media

DEPARTMENT: Visual & Communication Arts

LOCATION: Main Campus, Harrisonburg | UC 275B

PHONE: (540) 432-4361

Miller-Derstine (director/producer) is an award-winning documentary filmmaker drawn to stories centering joy as resilience. She approaches all her work with a deep commitment to ethical storytelling and an awareness of the extractive history of the documentary field.

Her most recent short documentary Once Upon the Wetland (2025) has received Oscar qualification in the Short Documentary category and won Best Documentary at Beyond: The Cary Film Festival. Her other notable work includes Bloom (2024), which has been acquired for educational distribution by Good Docs, and won Best Documentary at the Longleaf Film Festival, and Welcome to the Dollhouse (2020), which won Best Director at both the Atlanta DocuFest and Hoosier Films Festival.

You can view her work at