Dawn Porter, founder of Trilogy Films, is “In the Director’s Chair,” interviewed by SHOOT editor Robert Goldrich.
Porter recently received the International Documentary Association’s Career Achievement Award, an honor presented annually to an individual film or video maker who, through a body of work, has made a major and lasting contribution to the documentary form. Porter is known for her storytelling on social justice, history, and on cultural icons. Her celebrated documentaries include Gideon’s Army, Trapped, John Lewis: Good Trouble, The Lady Bird Diaries, The Way I See It, Rise Again: Tulsa and The Red Summer, Luther: Never Too Much and Power of the Dream. The latter two debuted at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. 2024 also brought us Porter’s MSNBC series, “The Sing Sing Chronicles”. Furthermore, she just earned her third Film Independent Spirit Award nomination for “Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme Court, a four-part Showtime series”. Her prior Spirit Award nods came for the documentary series “Philly D.A. in 2022”, and “Gideon’s Army” in 2014. Porter is also exploring short-form fare–including commercials and branded content–by coming aboard the roster of Institute, the production company headed by acclaimed filmmaker Lauren Greenfield.
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