Porter Versfelt III
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Additional Crew
- Cinematographer
Porter Versfelt III is a native of Tulsa, Oklahoma and Dallas, Texas.
After spending his teen years as an "oil patch brat" in Europe and the Middle East, and a nomadic early professional life, Porter L. Versfelt III chose Georgia as his adopted home state in 1994.
He has worked as an Atlanta-based freelance producer, director, journalist, script writer and television cameraman for such organizations as Lifetime, Warner Brothers, Sony Pictures, Sony Pictures Television, Warner Brothers, Paramount Pictures, Lions Gate Films, DreamWorks, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Universal Pictures, Georgia Public Broadcasting / PeachStar, E!, the Food Network, ABC News, NBC News, CNN International and the United States Geological Survey.
Recent projects include ... Shooting EPK's and behind-the-scenes making-of documentaries and DVD special features for many motion pictures and multiple network TV dramas. This also includes work as a Field Producer / Director of broadcast promotions for Drop Dead Diva, Field Producer of EPK for Stomp The Yard, among other projects.
Porter Versfelt III an experienced reality TV camera operator (both unscripted and scripted) with many years of production credits including:
COPS
Dinner Impossible (Food Network)
The System (Court TV)
NASCAR Angels (ABC)
Celebrity Fit Club (VH1)
Naked Cannes (E! International)
Encounters With The Unexplained (Total Living Network)
Entertainment Tonight (CBS)
Guinness World Records Primetime (Fox)
Tough Target (Fox)
Porter Versfelt's motion picture EPK / DVD Special Features / behind-the-scenes credits include movies such as:
Contagion (Universal Pictures) Wanderlust (Universal Pictures) Life As We Know It (Warner Brothers) Due Date (Warner Brothers) Why Did I Get Married Too (Lionsgate Films) I Can Do Bad All By Myself (Lionsgate Films) Preacher's Kid (Warner Brothers) Notorious (Fox Searchlight Pictures) Madea Goes To Jail (Lionsgate Films) The Family That Preys (Lionsgate Films) Meet the Browns (Lionsgate Films) Daddy's Little Girls (Lionsgate Films) Madea's Family Reunion (Lionsgate Films) Stomp the Yard (Sony Pictures) Shark Tale (Dreamworks)
My network television reality TV / behind-the-scenes credits include such network TV prime time series as:
Drop Dead Diva (Lifetime)
Vampire Diaries (CW / Tribune)
Past Life (Fox)
Porter has worked as a broadcast journalist since 1975, getting his start in Boston while attending Northeastern University. In 1976 he won a national reporting award from Sigma Delta Chi (SDX) for his radio coverage of court-ordered Boston public school desegregation.
After completing his journalism training at the University of Missouri
From 1984 - 1990 Porter worked as a freelance producer, director, scriptwriter and cameraman in Miami for a wide variety of clients such as NBC and ABC News, ABC and NBC sports, and many advertising and public relations agencies, Fortune 500 corporations and international TV networks.
In 1990, Porter created the concept and pilot for the national PBS do-it-yourself series "Building The American Dream", later joining the regional PBS network (WPSX-TV / PennArama / iTV) operated by the Pennsylvania State University, where he produced many regional and national educational, documentary and public affairs programs.
Porter's interests include organic herb and vegetable gardening, carpentry, home DIY projects, reading, cooking, weather and earth science, collecting old books and travel. His favorite TV networks are The Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel, Food Network, SciFi Channel, HGTV, Fox News, CNN and PBS. His favorite PBS programs are This Old House, Victory Garden and NOVA. He enjoys any television program dealing with history, adventure, space, science fiction, DIY, gardening, food and cooking.
Porter is married to Angela, a public school teacher and lives in an Atlanta, Georgia suburb.
After spending his teen years as an "oil patch brat" in Europe and the Middle East, and a nomadic early professional life, Porter L. Versfelt III chose Georgia as his adopted home state in 1994.
He has worked as an Atlanta-based freelance producer, director, journalist, script writer and television cameraman for such organizations as Lifetime, Warner Brothers, Sony Pictures, Sony Pictures Television, Warner Brothers, Paramount Pictures, Lions Gate Films, DreamWorks, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Universal Pictures, Georgia Public Broadcasting / PeachStar, E!, the Food Network, ABC News, NBC News, CNN International and the United States Geological Survey.
Recent projects include ... Shooting EPK's and behind-the-scenes making-of documentaries and DVD special features for many motion pictures and multiple network TV dramas. This also includes work as a Field Producer / Director of broadcast promotions for Drop Dead Diva, Field Producer of EPK for Stomp The Yard, among other projects.
Porter Versfelt III an experienced reality TV camera operator (both unscripted and scripted) with many years of production credits including:
COPS
Dinner Impossible (Food Network)
The System (Court TV)
NASCAR Angels (ABC)
Celebrity Fit Club (VH1)
Naked Cannes (E! International)
Encounters With The Unexplained (Total Living Network)
Entertainment Tonight (CBS)
Guinness World Records Primetime (Fox)
Tough Target (Fox)
Porter Versfelt's motion picture EPK / DVD Special Features / behind-the-scenes credits include movies such as:
Contagion (Universal Pictures) Wanderlust (Universal Pictures) Life As We Know It (Warner Brothers) Due Date (Warner Brothers) Why Did I Get Married Too (Lionsgate Films) I Can Do Bad All By Myself (Lionsgate Films) Preacher's Kid (Warner Brothers) Notorious (Fox Searchlight Pictures) Madea Goes To Jail (Lionsgate Films) The Family That Preys (Lionsgate Films) Meet the Browns (Lionsgate Films) Daddy's Little Girls (Lionsgate Films) Madea's Family Reunion (Lionsgate Films) Stomp the Yard (Sony Pictures) Shark Tale (Dreamworks)
My network television reality TV / behind-the-scenes credits include such network TV prime time series as:
Drop Dead Diva (Lifetime)
Vampire Diaries (CW / Tribune)
Past Life (Fox)
Porter has worked as a broadcast journalist since 1975, getting his start in Boston while attending Northeastern University. In 1976 he won a national reporting award from Sigma Delta Chi (SDX) for his radio coverage of court-ordered Boston public school desegregation.
After completing his journalism training at the University of Missouri
- Columbia, Porter worked for five television stations in the mid-west,
From 1984 - 1990 Porter worked as a freelance producer, director, scriptwriter and cameraman in Miami for a wide variety of clients such as NBC and ABC News, ABC and NBC sports, and many advertising and public relations agencies, Fortune 500 corporations and international TV networks.
In 1990, Porter created the concept and pilot for the national PBS do-it-yourself series "Building The American Dream", later joining the regional PBS network (WPSX-TV / PennArama / iTV) operated by the Pennsylvania State University, where he produced many regional and national educational, documentary and public affairs programs.
Porter's interests include organic herb and vegetable gardening, carpentry, home DIY projects, reading, cooking, weather and earth science, collecting old books and travel. His favorite TV networks are The Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel, Food Network, SciFi Channel, HGTV, Fox News, CNN and PBS. His favorite PBS programs are This Old House, Victory Garden and NOVA. He enjoys any television program dealing with history, adventure, space, science fiction, DIY, gardening, food and cooking.
Porter is married to Angela, a public school teacher and lives in an Atlanta, Georgia suburb.
