Life After

2025. 99 m. Reid Davenport. Multitude Films. US. English. Rated NR.

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Winner, U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award, 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Life After is a gripping investigative documentary that exposes the tangled web of moral dilemmas and profit motives surrounding assisted dying. Disabled filmmaker Reid Davenport uncovers shocking abuses of power while amplifying the voices of the disability community fighting for justice and dignity in an unfolding matter of life and death.

In 1983, a disabled Californian woman named Elizabeth Bouvia sought the “right to die,” igniting a national debate about autonomy and the value of disabled lives. After years of courtroom battles, Bouvia vanished from public view. Sundance-winner Davenport embarks on a personal investigation to find out what really happened to Bouvia and reveal why her story is disturbingly relevant today.

Please note that Life After will be screened with open captions at all shows.

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“Surprising, insightful, moving, and politically far-reaching… Made with a personal fervor that never loses sight of reportorial specifics.”
Richard Brody, The New Yorker

“Challenges an able-bodied audience’s preconceptions about the lives of disabled people, as well as upends the expectations of how documentaries are supposed to unfold.”
Esther Zuckerman, IndieWire

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Q&A with director Reid Davenport and producer Colleen Cassingham

Sunday, Aug. 24 2025, 2:00

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Reid Davenport makes documentaries about disability from an overtly political perspective. Reid’s first two feature films, Life After (2025) and I Didn't See You There (2022), both premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and respectively won a Special Jury Award and the Directing Award. I Didn't See You There won the True Than Fiction Award at the 2023 Independent Spirit Awards and was broadcast nationally on PBS’s POV. Life After is slated to air on PBS’ Independent Lens in fall 2025 and currently has a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Colleen Cassingham is a producer at Multitude Films focused on politically-committed artful nonfiction. She produced Reid Davenport’s second feature film Life After, which won the US Documentary Special Jury Award at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, and Casey Carter’s debut feature To Use a Mountain, which won the Special Jury Award at Visions du Réel 2025. She also produced the IDA Awards-nominated shorts collection Queer Futures (CPH:DOX 2023), which is streaming on Criterion Channel.