道恩·波特 Dawn Porter

Education Bronx High School of Science
Swarthmore College (1988)
Georgetown University Law Center
Occupation Film director
Employer Trilogy Films
Website www.trilogy-films.com
Dawn Porter is an American documentary filmmaker and founder of production company Trilogy Films.

Porter started her film career by working as executive producer for various films. In 2009, she executive-produced director Jon Bowermaster's Terra Antarctica, Re-Discovering the Seventh Continent, a 49-minute documentary exploring the Antarctica Peninsula and its evolution. In 2009, she also co-executive produced two other films: Serious Moonlight, and What Would Darwin Think? Man v. Nature in the Galapagos. In 2011, she co-executive produced The Green, a romantic drama feature film directed by Steven Williford.

Porter's directorial debut was the 2013 documentary film Gideon's Army,[3] about three black public defenders working in the South America. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2013, where it won the festival's "Documentary Editing Award".[4] The film also won the Creative Promise Award at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.[5] Gideon’s Army premiered on HBO in July 2013,[6] and was later nominated for an Emmy Award,[7] and an Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature. The film also won the Ridenhour Award for best documentary film in 2014.

Porter's second film project was Spies of Mississippi,[3] which debuted on PBS in 2014. It is 53-minute documentary shot in black and white colour about Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission (MSSC) efforts to preserve segregation during the 1950s and 1960s, including the use of an extensive spy network and violent cover-ups.[8] The film was written by Rick Bowers and directed by Porter.

Trapped, Porter's latest film premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2016. It shows the impact of anti-abortion laws on abortion providers in the South along with chronicling the last remaining abortion clinic in Mississippi.[9] Porter say