Ava Porter is a multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. She received her MFA in Visual Arts from UC San Diego and her BA in Studio Art from UCLA. Her work, which spans documentary, narrative, and experimental cinema as well as multimedia art forms, has been screened and exhibited internationally. She is a recipient of the Fulbright Fellowship (2017), the Bruce Geller Memorial WORD Artist Prize (2018), and the UC Institute for Research in the Arts Grant (2015), and was most recently been awarded the MFJC Fellowship (2022) for her next documentary feature film.
In 2017, she established Fifth Corner Films, a full-service production company, with Farhad Akhmetov. Their directorial debut, documentary feature Wild Honey (2019), won numerous awards and honors at international film festivals including Festival Images de Sons (2021), New Filmmakers LA (2021), and the Golden State Film Festival (2020). Other notable screenings include Eurasia International Film Festival (2019), Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival (2019), WOMEX (2020), and FIDBA (2020).
Porter also worked as one of four cinematographers on Narcissister Organ Player (2018), which premiered at Sundance.
Additional recent credits include American Horror Story: Seasons 10-12 main titles (2021-2023, editor, cinematographer), The Creator main titles (2023, editor, additional cinematography) From main titles (2022, cinematographer, editor), live video projections for the Chvrches 2021-2022 World Tour (cinematographer, editor), The Getty Institute’s Art in LA Series short films (2019-present), and video installation Cai Guo-Quiang: Making a Gunpowder Painting for the Palace Museum in Beijing (2020, editor).
