Mary Ellen Porto | Sound Designer
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Mary Ellen Porto is an Emmy-winning sound designer who has been a member of the New York sound editing community for over thirty-five years. She is also the recipient of two Golden Reel awards for her sound work on Dee Reese’s film “Bessie” and Scott Frank and Allan Scott’s series “The Queen’s Gambit”. In 2018 she became a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Mary Ellen began her career in 1986 as part of the sound editing crew for the film “Working Girls” by Lizzie Borden and has not stopped working since. Among the many incredible filmmakers for whom she has had the pleasure of working since then are such luminaries as Sidney Lumet (“Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead”), Ang Lee (“Sense and Sensibility”), Mira Nair (“Salaam Bombay”, “Mississippi Masala”, “Hysterical Blindness”, “Vanity Fair” “The Queen of Katwe”), Karyn Kusama (“Girlfight”), Jon Stewart (“Rosewater”, Irresistible”), David Simon (“Treme” “Show me a Hero”, “The Deuce”), Amy Seimetz (“The Girlfriend Experience”, ”She Dies Tomorrow), Todd Kessler (“The New Look”), Rashid Johnson, (“Native Son”), Marielle Heller (“What the Constitution Means to Me”), JC Chandor (“Margin Call”), Tim Blake Nelson (“Eye of God”), Steve Buscemi (“Interview”), Stanley Tucci (“Blind Date”), Sebastian Junger (“Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS”), Ric Rubin (“Tougher than Leather”), Amir Naderi (“Avenue ABC Manhattan”), Theodore Melfi (“St. Vincent”), Dee Rees (“Bessie”) and Sam Boyd (“Love Life”).