Person
Dawn Porter
Directing
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
Bobby Kennedy for President
Director
When a Witness Recants
Director
Serious Moonlight
Executive Producer
The Sing Sing Chronicles
Director
37 Words
Director
The Way I See It
Director
The Me You Can't See
Executive Producer
Philly D.A.
Executive Producer
Eyes on the Prize III: We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest 1977-2015
Executive Producer
Luther: Never Too Much
Director
Filmography
- 2026HarvestExecutive Producer
- 2026Breaking Glass: The Pat Summitt StoryDirector
- 2026When a Witness RecantsDirector
- 2025Edge of DaybreakDirector
- 2025Eyes on the Prize III: We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest 1977-2015Executive Producer
- 2024The Sing Sing ChroniclesDirector
- 2024Luther: Never Too MuchDirector
- 2024Power of the DreamDirector
- 2024Rebel NunExecutive Producer
- 2023The Lady Bird DiariesProducer
- 2023Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme CourtExecutive Producer
- 2022MerkelExecutive Producer
- 2022Cirque du Soleil: Without a NetDirector
- 202237 WordsDirector
- 2022AftershockExecutive Producer
- 2021Bree Wayy: Promise Witness RemembranceDirector
- 2021Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red SummerDirector
- 2021The Me You Can't SeeExecutive Producer
- 2021Philly D.A.Executive Producer
- 2021Women Who Make HistoryDirector
- 2020Vernon Jordan: Make it PlainDirector
- 2020The Way I See ItDirector
- 2020John Lewis: Good TroubleProducer
- 2018Voting MattersDirector
- 2018The Racial Politics of AbortionDirector
- 2018Bobby Kennedy for PresidentDirector
- 2016TrappedDirector
- 2015My Brother’s KeeperDirector
- 2014Spies of MississippiDirector
- 2013Gideon's ArmyDirector
- 2009Serious MoonlightExecutive Producer
- —Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a MarriageDirector
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