Dawn Porter is an award-winning writer and producer. Her work has been featured on HBO, Netflix, CNN, PBS, MSNBC, MTV Films, and other platforms. Porter’s 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. Her other credits include “37 Words,” “The Way I See It,” “John Lewis: Good Trouble,” and “Gideon’s Army.” She is the recipient of the 2022 Critics Choice Documentary Awards Impact Award, and is an honoree at the 2022 Gracies Leadership Awards.
“Cirque du Soleil: Without a Net” is screening at the 2022 DOC NYC film festival, which is