Life After
- Mon, Aug 11
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Director: Reid Davenport Run Time: 100 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 2025
Producer: Colleen Cassingham
Featuring a conversation with director Reid Davenport and Michelle Uzeta (DREDF), moderated by journalist Kristen Lopez.
A gripping personal investigation 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.
Disabled filmmaker Reid Davenport trenchantly probes the legacy of Elizabeth Bouvia — a disabled California woman who, at the age of 26, sought “the right to die.” Her 1983 case provoked a national debate about the value of disabled lives, and Davenport sees echoes in chilling contemporary cases of disabled people dying prematurely — at their own hands and from a broken health care system. Through moving interviews and rich archival material, LIFE AFTER looks critically at where progressive values of bodily autonomy collide with the devaluing and fear of disabled lives.
Accessibility Options: Open Captions, Wheelchair Accessible, ASL Interpreter for the conversation.
“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
“Empathetic and confrontational…weaves a powerful first-person perspective with a journalistic investigation into disability justice…An engrossing, moving and most importantly confrontational movie about the right to die and disability justice.”
– Murtada Elfadl, Variety
Can’t make it to the in-person screening? Check out these virtual screenings you can attend in your own home:
Virtual: Tuesday August 12 8pm PST | Tickets: https://gathr.com/events/710bfe44/r/3a7bebe9
Virtual: Wednesday August 13 8pm PST | Tickets: https://gathr.com/events/b51fd7af/r/9c592442