Dawn Porter

Known for

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.

Best known work

Serious Moonlight

2009

The Way I See It

2020

Aftershock

2022

Bobby Kennedy for President

2018

Gideon's Army

2013

Merkel

2022

Trapped

2016

John Lewis: Good Trouble

2020

Luther: Never Too Much

2024

Cirque du Soleil: Without a Net

2022

Filmography

TBA
Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage
Director, Producer, Writer
2026
Harvest
Executive Producer
2026
Breaking Glass: The Pat Summitt Story
Director
2026
When a Witness Recants
Director, Producer
2025
Edge of Daybreak
Director, Producer
2025
Eyes on the Prize III: We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest 1977-2015TV
Executive Producer
2024
The Sing Sing ChroniclesTV
Director, Executive Producer, Creator
2024
Luther: Never Too Much
Director, Executive Producer
2024
Power of the Dream
Director, Producer
2024
Rebel Nun
Executive Producer
2023
The Lady Bird Diaries
Producer, Director
2023
Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme CourtTV
Director, Executive Producer
2022
Merkel
Executive Producer
2022
Cirque du Soleil: Without a Net
Director, Executive Producer, Producer
2022
37 WordsTV
Director
2022
Aftershock
Executive Producer
2021
Bree Wayy: Promise Witness Remembrance
Director
2021
Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer
Director, Producer
2021
The Me You Can't SeeTV
Executive Producer, Director
2021
Philly D.A.TV
Executive Producer
2021
Women Who Make History
Director
2020
Vernon Jordan: Make it Plain
Director
2020
The Way I See It
Director, Producer
2020
John Lewis: Good Trouble
Producer, Director
2018
Voting Matters
Director