Dawn Porter: Artist’s Talk



In Conversation

  • Dawn Porter
  • Lisa Armstrong

    Award winning journalist Lisa Armstrong is a professor at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and has written for numerous publications, including The New Yorker, The Texas Tribune, The Atlantic, The Intercept, The Daily Beast, and Rolling Stone.

In this artist’s talk, illustrated with excerpts from some of the many documentaries she has made over the past decade, Porter discusses what inspires her, her career trajectory, why and how she began making documentaries, and her approach to creating successful and enduring nonfiction films.

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