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Dawn Porter

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Dawn Porter is an American documentary filmmaker and founder of production company Trilogy Films. ()

Dawn Porter is an American documentary filmmaker known for Trapped (2016), Gideon's Army (2013) and John Lewis: Good Trouble (2020) and founder of production company Trilogy Films.

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Most frequent genres for this person: Documentaries | Comedies | Romance / Love

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TRAP (Targeted Regulations of Abortion Providers) laws have been passed by conservative state legislatures in the US and clinics have taken their fight to the courts. Follow the struggles of the clini ...

Trapped

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2016 | 3.5/5 | 1h 23min
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The timely biopic focuses on John Lewis’ longstanding prominence as a civil rights champion and his continuing crusade for racial and social equality. The documentary illuminates the 80-year-old Con ...

John Lewis: Good Trouble

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2020 | 2.6/5 | 1h 38min
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Follows three young, committed Public Defenders who are dedicated to working for the people society would rather forget. Long hours, low pay and staggering caseloads are so common that even the most c ...

Gideon's Army

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2013 | 3.6/5 | 1h 36min
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From award-winning filmmaker Dawn Porter comes "The Lady Bird Diaries," a groundbreaking all-archival documentary film about Lady Bird Johnson, one of the most influential and least understood First L ...

The Lady Bird Diaries

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2023 | 4.0/5 | 1h 40min
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This acclaimed Emmy Award-winning anthology series features documentaries and a limited number of fiction films united by the creative freedom, artistic achievement and unflinching visions of their in ...

Independent Lens

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1999- | 3.4/5 | 1h per episode
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Movies with Dawn Porter as Crew(23)

Directing/Director2024 Luther: Never Too Much
Production/Executive Producer2024 Luther: Never Too Much
Directing/Director2023 The Lady Bird Diaries
Production/Producer2023 The Lady Bird Diaries
Directing/Director2022 Cirque Du Soleil: Without a Net
Production/Executive Producer2022 Cirque Du Soleil: Without a Net
Production/Producer2022 Cirque Du Soleil: Without a Net
Production/Executive Producer2022 Merkel
Production/Executive Producer2022 Aftershock
Directing/Director2021 Bree Wayy: Promise Witness Remembrance
Directing/Director2021 Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer
Production/Producer2021 Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer
Directing/Director2020 The Way I See It
Production/Producer2020 The Way I See It
Directing/Director2020 John Lewis: Good Trouble
Production/Producer2020 John Lewis: Good Trouble
Directing/Director2020 Vernon Jordan: Make it Plain
Directing/Director2016 Trapped
Directing/Director2014 Spies of Mississippi
Production/Producer2014 Spies of Mississippi
Directing/Director2013 Gideon's Army
Writing/Writer2013 Gideon's Army
Production/Executive Producer2009 Serious Moonlight

TV Shows/Series with Dawn Porter as Crew(7)

Directing/Director2023 Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme Court
Production/Executive Producer2023 Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme Court
Directing/Director2022 37 Words
Production/Executive Producer2021 The Me You Can't See
Directing/Director2021 The Me You Can't See
Directing/Director2018 Bobby Kennedy for President
Production/Executive Producer2018 Bobby Kennedy for President

Full Name: Dawn Porter
Educated at: Swarthmore College, Georgetown University
Other names for Dawn Porter (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Dawn Porter (filmmaker)"
Dawn Porter frequently works together with these people:
Jessica Congdon (4x, Crew)
Lyndon B. Johnson (3x, Actor)
Dave Marcus (3x, Crew)
George W. Bush (2x, Actor)
Jon Kamen (2x, Crew)
Eli Holzman (2x, Crew)
Chris Hilleke (2x, Crew)
Andy Ostroy (2x, Actor)
Paula Eiselt (2x, Crew)
Kayla Sklar (2x, Crew)
Lauren Capps (2x, Crew)
Pete Souza (2x, Cast)

Other people with this name: Dawn Porter (GB)

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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:1307642, Added: 09/03/2019, Last updated: 03/23/2024