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Harris's short film PORELESS will have its NY premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival! June 7th at 8pm, June 11 at 9pm,  and June 14th at 2:15pm.

Back by Popular Demand! Tribeca added an additional screening June 16th at 8:45pm.

• Inside Out Film Festival May 28th at 9:15pm (International premiere)
• Bentonville Film Festival June 20th 1pm
• Frameline June 22nd 11am

Harris directed the film, which he co-wrote with Fawzia Mirza. 

The film stars Akbar Hamid, Allyce Beasley, Parvesh Cheena, Gia Crovatin, Diane Guerrero, Lucy Owen, Sophie von Haselberg, Sureni Weerasekera with Jillian Gottlieb, Joel Perez, Joey Zauzig

Harris produced along with Hamid, Mirza and Rabia Sultana. 

Cinematography by Bill Kirstein (MEAN GIRLS [2024])

The film World Premiered  in Aspen ShortsFest. Aspen Times: ‘Poreless’ stands out at the 34th Aspen Shortsfest

Poreless received a special mention for the Frameline Completion Fund

8 MINUTES 20 SECONDS is now streaming on Omeleto, YouTube’s top showcase for award-winning short films.

The film is  playing June 7th at the Science Fiction & Fantasy Short Film Festival co-produced by MoPOP (Museum Of Pop Culture) and SIFF (Seattle International Film Festival).

The film will be exhibited at MoPOP (Museum Of Pop Culture) for a year beginning June 2025. 

Harris wrote/directed the short film which premiered at Aspen ShortsFest and was nominated for Best Short Film at the Atlanta Film Festival, made its International Premiere at Inside Out Film Festival and Los Angeles premiere in the HollyShorts Film Festival and its NY premiere at NewFest.

The film stars Tony Award Winner Brandon Uranowitz (LEOPOLDSTADT), Tony nominee Ato Blankson-Wood (SLAVE PLAY), along with 2x Emmy nominee Allyce Beasley ("Moonlighting"), Julia Chan, Steve Cirbus, Nadia Quinn. Cinematography by Ryan De Franco. Casting by Henry Russell Bergstein. 

Produced by Trent Anderson, Harris Doran, Carl Moellenberg. EPs Adam Maffei, Jamin O'Brien.

Harris directed the short film RAVEL, written by Chelsea Marcantel for the Juilliard 4th year drama class.

Watch the trailer for the film. 

This film was produced in 2025 to showcase Juilliard Drama’s graduating fourth-year actors (Group 54). The completed film will become available after the festival season.

Harris produced D. Smith's feature documentary KOKOMO CITY which is available to stream on Showtime/Paramount+

The film  premiered in the 2023 Sundance Film Festival where it won both the NEXT Innovator and Audience Awards and was acquired by Magnolia Pictures. 

The film made its International Premiere in the Berlin Film Festival where it won the Panorama Audience Award. 

Harris was nominated for Best Documentary for the Film Independent Sprit Awards

The film is a raw depiction of the lives of four black trans sex workers as they confront the dichotomy between the black community and themselves.

Harris's film F^¢K '€M R!GHT B@¢K that he wrote/directed is now a Vimeo Staff Pick!

You can watch the full film here on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/951346486

On Showtime/Paramount+: 

https://www.sho.com/titles/3523542/f%5E¢k-€m-rght-b%40¢k

The film stars DDm,  2024 Tony Award winner Kara Young (PURLIE VICTORIOUS) and Catherine Curtin and premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival World Premiere where it was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize and IndieWire named it one of the 10 Must-See Short Films. 

The film had its NYC premiere at its sold out screening at the Tribeca Film Festival, and won many awards including Aspen ShortsFest Jury Prize for "Best Comedy" making the film Oscar-qualified. 

Harris is a producer on Michael Borrelli's film THE LAST DAY OF BYRON BRAY. 

Harris is in pre-production on the feature films IN THE WAKE and TONE DEAF, both of which he wrote and is directing. 

Harris is in development on multiple feature and television projects.

Harris has been brought on as the film curator of the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center

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Harris was a Grammy nominee for his work on Sondheim Unplugged: The NYC Sessions Volume III which was nominated for the 2024 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album.

Harris directed Niloufar Nourbakhsh's new opera WE, THE INNUMERABLE at National Sawdust in NYC, presented by Center for Contemporary Opera. Libretto by Lisa Flanagan.

WE, THE INNUMERABLE: After the 2009 presidential election in Tehran, Iran, Roya and her husband, Siavash, become targets of the state for participating in nationwide protests against the election  result. Siavash is murdered, and Roya is imprisoned and put under extreme pressure to record a confessional stating that her husband was a Revolutionary Guard force who was killed by the enemies of the state. The opera is the heroic journey of an Iranian woman who  protects the truth in the face of fear and violence.