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Directing

Known Credits

Gender

Female

Birthday

Place of Birth

Dawn Porter

Biography

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.

Known For

5.0%

Serious Moonlight

Dec 4, 2009

7.7%

The Way I See It

Sep 18, 2020

7.7%

The Way I See It

Sep 18, 2020

7.7%

Bobby Kennedy for President

Apr 27, 2018

7.7%

Bobby Kennedy for President

Apr 27, 2018

7.1%

Gideon's Army

Jan 21, 2013

7.1%

Gideon's Army

Jan 21, 2013

7.4%

Aftershock

Jan 23, 2022

7.0%

Trapped

Jan 24, 2016

6.8%

Merkel

Nov 24, 2022

4.6%

John Lewis: Good Trouble

Jul 3, 2020

4.6%

John Lewis: Good Trouble

Jul 3, 2020

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Creator

2024

The Sing Sing Chronicles as Creator

Directing

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Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage as Director

2024		The Sing Sing Chronicles as Director
2024		Luther: Never Too Much as Director
2024		Power of the Dream as Director

2023		The Lady Bird Diaries as Director
2023		Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme Court as Director

2022		Cirque du Soleil: Without a Net as Director
2022		37 Words as Director

2021		Bree Wayy: Promise Witness Remembrance as Director
2021		Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer as Director
2021		The Me You Can't See as Director
2021		Women Who Make History as Director

2020		Vernon Jordan: Make it Plain as Director
2020		The Way I See It as Director
2020		John Lewis: Good Trouble as Director

2018		Voting Matters as Director
2018		The Racial Politics of Abortion as Director
2018		Bobby Kennedy for President as Director

2016

Trapped as Director

2015

My Brother’s Keeper as Director

2014

Spies of Mississippi as Director

2013

Gideon's Army as Director

Production

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Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage as Producer

2025

Eyes on the Prize III: We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest 1977-2015 as Executive Producer

2024		Luther: Never Too Much as Executive Producer
2024		Power of the Dream as Producer
2024		Rebel Nun as Executive Producer

2023		The Lady Bird Diaries as Producer
2023		Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme Court as Executive Producer

2022		Merkel as Executive Producer
2022		Cirque du Soleil: Without a Net as Executive Producer
2022		Cirque du Soleil: Without a Net as Producer
2022		Aftershock as Executive Producer

2021		Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer as Producer
2021		The Me You Can't See as Executive Producer

2020		The Way I See It as Producer
2020		John Lewis: Good Trouble as Producer

2018

Bobby Kennedy for President as Executive Producer

2014

Spies of Mississippi as Producer

2009

Serious Moonlight as Executive Producer

Writing

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Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage as Writer

2013

Gideon's Army as Writer