Lisa Porter
Writing
Biography
Lisa Porter is President of Pope Productions and Executive Producer of Hudson & Rex. She has worked in the film and television industry in many capacities including producing, directing, screenwriting, acting and casting. She won a WGC Canadian Screenwriting Award for the dramatic television miniseries Above and Beyond. Lisa is also a multidisciplinary artist who works in live performance and media arts. She has made a significant contribution to contemporary dance not only as an artist, but also as a curator with Neighbourhood Dance Works, where she worked with the long running Festival of New Dance. Lisa owns Ochre House Retreat, a converted church that hosts creative arts retreats and the popular book festival, Ochre Fest.
Known For
Above and Beyond is a four-hour 2006 miniseries aired by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on October 29 and 30. The miniseries is about the Atlantic Ferry Organization, which was tasked with delivering aircraft from North America to Europe in the early years of the Second World War. It stars Richard E. Grant, Jonathan Scarfe, Liane Balaban, Allan Hawco, Kenneth Welsh, and Jason Priestley.
Above and Beyond
Fifteen years after the events of The Boys of St. Vincent took place, the various boys involved are brought in to testify against the brothers, now finally standing trial, who assaulted them when they were children.
The Boys of St. Vincent: 15 Years Later
The true story of boys being sexually abused at their orphanage, run by a religious community in Newfoundland.
The Boys of St. Vincent
A small fishing village must procure a local doctor to secure a lucrative business contract. When unlikely candidate and big city doctor Paul Lewis lands in their lap for a trial residence, the townsfolk rally together to charm him into staying. As the doctor’s time in the village winds to a close, acting mayor Murray French has no choice but to pull out all the stops and begin The Grand Seduction.
The Grand Seduction
As the new millennium approaches, God considers pulling the plug on the planet unless St. John the Baptist finds a reason to spare humanity. John travels to the Newfoundland city that bears his name where he becomes entangled in the lives of talk-show host Marietta, her husband Rick. (Toronto International Film Festival)
Extraordinary Visitor
Beat Down is an irreverent comedy about wrestling, family and following your dreams no matter how painful that can sometimes be. Fran Whiteway (Marthe Bernard, Republic of Doyle) is eighteen and a real firecracker. More than anything, Fran dreams of becoming a professional wrestler. Her single-father Whitey (Robb Wells, Trailer Park Boys) is a former-pro, aka White Lightning, with broken dreams of his own and is dead set against Fran wrestling. Fran is determined though and when Whitey's old rival Dark Thunder (Tony Nappo, Saw II) comes to town, she runs away to join his tour. Whitey is devastated and while he tries to get his daughter back, Fran learns the ropes of the wrestling game and of life itself.
Beat Down
In this Christmas drama, a boy and his family discover he is an elf.
The Elf
A graduate history student returns to her native Newfoundland, searching for proof of a conspiracy surrounding the referendum that saw Newfoundland join Canada.
Secret Nation
Elizabeth Sutton, a lecturer from Toronto and Peter Breen, a professor of cultural studies from St. John's, Newfoundland, come together in his town for a secret liaison. All is bliss. But within twenty-four hours, the affair has collapsed. A clash of languages, cultures, and values force them to come to terms with each other's sense of morality.
Understanding Bliss
A project of the Provincial Advisory Council on the Status of Women, Newfoundland and Labrador, aimed at encouraging young women to consider non-traditional careers.
Down the Road
On Hold, by choreographer and visual artist Nicola Hawkins of Admiral's Cove, Newfoundland is a striking movement piece that distills tenderness, honesty, and grief. The performers, actor John Moyes and his daughter, dancer-storyteller Louise Moyes, commissioned the film in their 80th and 52nd years. Cinematographer and editor Lisa Porter. Composer Adam Foran. Shot at the Ferryland lighthouse, Newfoundland.
On Hold
A beautiful baker teaches eager students the art of baking bread. Set to irresistibly funky dance music, Baking Lessons is a fun filled romp through a most unusual tutorial. You will never view a two-bun loaf in quite the same way.
Baking Lessons
A woman discovers the unexpected in her basement when she investigates why her water has run dry.