Davey Porter
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Davey Porter is the executive producer and co-creator of Nanna's Cottage -- a half-hour Saturday morning children’s television program. He is also president and CEO of Polara Productions.
Porter is an award-winning filmmaker who has produced two feature films -- one of which he co-directed. As producer/director of the non-fiction feature, The Boles Murders, Porter was able to stimulate the reopening of a 40-year-old homicide case where the victims were an entire family and their dog. The Boles Murders won the prestigious 2004 June Lockhart Award for Special Achievement in Film.
Porter entered the motion picture business as a writer of episodic network television and small, independent feature motion pictures. One of his screenplays, Extreme Champions, was optioned by Disney Studios, which led to a first-look deal with Disney for screenplays and story ideas. Porter also produced the critically acclaimed Harley White Trash, the story of a troubled teen dealing with the loss of his mother.
Porter's association with Disney was concluded in 2002, and he accepted the post of Managing Editor of The Mountain News, an award-winning weekly newspaper located in the upscale Southern California mountain community of Lake Arrowhead.
While editor of The Mountain News, Porter was responsible for the primary coverage of the Old Fire, which was one of seven raging fires blazing across the Southland in October 2003. Porter was an on-scene news source for the Associated Press and a number of electronic news organizations. His crowning achievement of the assignment was his news team’s ability to get the newspaper published and distributed to the displaced residents at the evacuation centers in San Bernardino and Hesperia.
Of additional note: Porter's own home was burned to the ground when the Old Fire made its way through Cedar Glen. As a result of his on-the-scene presence during the fire, and the fact he was counted as one of the many who lost homes in the fire, Tor-Forge Publishing in New York, a division/imprint of St. Martin's Press, signed Porter to a book deal. Porter's non-fiction account of the Southern California wildland fires, Hell on Earth, will hit the bookstores nationally in August 2006.
Porter is happily married to his wife, Karen Sponsler-Porter, who is an award-winning costume designer, and the couple lives in Oregon with their children.
