Pushkin.

You know, you know, You know, there's there's some thinking that you experience the most traumatic death

like you like anytime that there's another death you you have you re-experienceienced the first and most important death in your

life and I remember thinking you know Meg has died she's not here is this all I'm

going to do with my life like am I to be as much as it was fine?

Being a lawyer was fine, but it didn't always make my heart race

with excitement.

And it was safe.

And I thought, I have a life. I don't have to be safe.

Why am I being safe? You know?

So I said to myself the next really big opportunity I get I'm gonna do it which was kind of counter to my you know I think another thing of having a parent who dies early is it can make you conservative because you feel like there's danger in the world and you try and you think you can control your

world and you can't. That was Don Porter I'm San Francisco so and this is

talk easy. Welcome to the show. Oh, Everyone's origin story is a little bit different, but I imagine there aren't many

filmmakers who were first lawyers.

That's the case for Dawn Porter, who started as an attorney before she turned into a

documentarian.

Right from the get-go, Dawn brought her courtroom knowledge into cinema.

Her first film, Gideon's Army, released in 2013, followed the life of three young committed

public defenders who do all they can for the people they represent.

From there she went on to make a film called Spies of Mississippi, then another one in 2016 called

Trapped, which investigated anti-abortion laws across America.

If you haven't seen that film, it's now available to stream on Netflix and is completely worth your time.

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