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 MFJC Fellowship (2022), the Bruce Geller Memorial WORD Artist Prize (2018), and the UC Institute for Research in the Arts Grant (2015).
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).
Additional recent credits include American Horror Story: Seasons 10-12 main titles (2021-2024, editor, cinematographer), Atlas main titles (2024, editor, additional VFX), The Creator main titles (2023, editor, additional cinematography) From main titles (2022, editor, cinematographer), live video projections for the Chvrches 2021-2022 World Tour (editor, cinematographer), The Getty Institute’s Art in LA Series short films (2019-present, editor, DP), video installation Cai Guo-Quiang: Making a Gunpowder Painting for the Palace Museum in Beijing (2020, editor), and Narcissister Organ Player (2018, cinematographer, aditional editing), which premiered at Sundance.
