Dawn Porter/ Trilogy Films: Award-winning filmmaker Dawn Porter has emerged in the entertainment industry as a leader in the art of storytelling; directing and producing critically acclaimed projects that have impacted generations of people from all walks of life. A two-time Sundance film festival director, Porter’s work has been featured on HBO, Netflix, CNN, PBS, MSNBC, MTV Films, and other platforms. She has been recognized with career achievement awards from the Hamptons and Mill Valley Film Festivals, is the recipient of the 2022 Critics Choice Documentary Awards “Impact Award,” and an honoree at the 2022 Gracies Leadership Awards. Her latest works include “37 Words” for ESPN and the continuation of the historic civil rights documentary series “Eyes on the
Prize,” which will be released in 2023. Her film, “Cirque du Soleil: Without a Net” premiered at DOC NYC in November 2022. Currently, she is working on “Confirmed,” a series that examines some of the most important Supreme Court decisions in modern American history. The series will premiere on Showtime in 2023. She executive produced the Emmy® Award-winning interactive multimedia project “Un(re)solved” for PBS and co-directed and EP’ed the Apple TV+ series “The Me You Can’t See.” In 2020 Porter directed two Emmy® Award-nominated documentaries: “The Way I See It” (Focus Features) and “John Lewis: Good Trouble” (CNN, Magnolia Pictures). Porter received Mill Valley Film Festival’s prestigious 2020 Mind the Gap Award for Documentarian of the Year and was awarded the 2020 Marlon Riggs Award at The San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Awards. Her 2016 film “Trapped,” which explores laws regulating abortion clinics in the South, won the Special Jury Social-Impact Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, and a Peabody Award.
