Making his highly-anticipated directorial debut with 'Anything's Possible,' the 52-year-old multi-hyphenate star is ready for his next era of storytelling.
, a film festival showcasing work by or about the LGBTQ community. At the ceremony, Porter will accept the festival's highest honor, the achievement award.
"I name all of it because the issue is you can't heal from a thing if you don't name it," Porter said."Naming makes whatever the thing is specific and clear. So that then, whatever it is, can be addressed, manipulated, overcome, embraced, whatever it is. It's not always a negative thing. I find that as queer people particularly —especially when I was younger — the shame was the silencer. Shame and silence equals death, and I just wasn't ready to die.
"I've marvel at the journey," Porter said."The first and last time I was at Outfest was 22 years ago with a movie called 'The Broken Hearts Club' and it was one of my first movies." "I didn't know I had it, which was, 'Oh, wait: I need to be a filmmaker. I need to be a writer. I need to be a film and television director. That's the way that my message is gonna get out,'" Porter said of his ah-ha moment."I just started doing it and all of a sudden, 22 years later, I have my debut as a director."Porter was intentional in how he approached scenes given the complex topics he wanted to cover.
Porter's goal in telling that story while centering a Black trans girl with a supportive mother was to show parents"what unconditional love looks like."
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