An independent production deal with New World Pictures resulted in Angel (1984), Children of the Corn (1984) and other films.
[3] [4] Borchers founded Planet Productions Corp., and went on to produce Two Moon Junction (1988), Leprechaun 2 (1994), and others.
He produced three films for Steven Spielberg's Amblin Playhouse television series and served as an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California School of Cinema/Television.
[5] The moving image collection of Donald P. Borchers is held at the Academy Film Archive.
From 1984 to 1996, Borchers served as an adjunct professor at the Peter Stark Producing Program, a Master of Fine Arts program in the USC School of Cinematic Arts teaching CIN 565, the budgeting and scheduling requisite class.