Filmmakers Dawn Porter, Shiori Ito And ‘No Other Land’ Collective To Receive Major Recognition At 40th IDA Documentary Awards
deadline.comDocumentary filmmaker Dawn Porter, whose acclaimed body of work includes John Lewis: Good Trouble, Trapped, The Lady Bird Diaries, and Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme Court, will be honored with the Career Achievement Award at the upcoming IDA Documentary Awards in Los Angeles.
Porter’s latest documentary feature, Luther: Never Too Much, about the late singer-songwriter Luther Vandross, hits theaters on November 1, before premiering on CNN, OWN, and Max.
Her documentary series The Sing Sing Chronicles, which follows “the bond between journalist Tom Robbins and Jon-Adrian ‘JJ’ Velazquez as they work to uncover justice in four unrelated homicide cases,” premieres on MSNBC on November 23 and 24.
The 40th IDA Documentary Awards will be held on December 5 at the historic Orpheum Theater in downtown L.A. In addition to the career award for Porter, director Shiori Ito will receive the IDA’s Emerging Filmmaker Award.
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