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Despite having directed or produced more than a dozen documentaries, Dawn Porter did not begin her career thinking she’d end up in film.
She actually studied law at Georgetown University Law School and was happy at her D.C.
firm, where she served as a litigator. Then her best friend at work died.
“She was in her 30s, and it was just like a bolt of lightning,” Porter says.
She has directed and written music videos, documentaries, short films and the feature films THE SEVEN MIRRORS and TREASURES.
“I started thinking, ‘What do I want to do?’ I don’t want to just fall into my career.”
She decided to take on the next scary opportunity that came her way, and that was working as the director of standards and practices for ABC News.
There, she made legal and ethical calls on journalism coverage and got a behind-the-scenes look at how films were made.
“I thought: ‘I could do this,’” she recalls. She co-executive produced some films and several years later moved over to A&E.
There she saw how few filmmakers looked like her.
“There are many African American filmmakers who are f