Celebrating Juneteenth, a look back: A conversation with documentarian Dawn Porter
February 2021 Cinema Femme had the honor of speaking with documentarian Dawn Porter about her impactful films. We bring back our interview with her to celebrate Juneteenth weekend. *Not an updated biography, biography from February 2021. Learn more about Dawn Porter’s latest work here. DAWN PORTER Biography Award-winning filmmaker, producer, and mental health/social justice advocate […]
For Juneteenth, we celebrate and elevate “As Of Yet,” directed by Chanel James and Taylor Garron
For Juneteenth today, we will be celebrating the Tribeca film “As Of Yet” directed by Chanel James and Taylor Garron. Juneteenth has now become a national federal holiday, which would not have happened if it wasn’t for the #BlackLivesMatter movement that rose to prominence last year in response to the murders of George Floyd, Breonna […]
Dawn Porter captures an awe-inspiring legacy in “John Lewis: Good Trouble”
We featured this interview on July 1st, 2020 before John Lewis passed. Dawn Porter won Mind the Gap (California Film Institute and Mill Valley Film Festival) Documentarian of the Year on 11/25/20. Black Lives Matter. There is a man named John Lewis, who has fought for that for over 60 years, and is still fighting […]