Almost Live episode #219
Join us for a special screening of the Sundance award-winning documentary Life After, presented with audio description.
Described by Variety as “engrossing, moving, and most importantly, confrontational,” Life After is a powerful, deeply personal investigation into assisted dying. We are thrilled to welcome disabled director Reid Davenport as a special guest. In the film, Davenport asks a provocative question: why is society more willing to offer disabled people the means to die than the support they need to live?
Life After brings together the missing voices of the disability community in the ongoing debate about assisted dying, uncovering chilling stories of disabled people dying prematurely. Davenport exposes the intersection of systemic failures and personal autonomy, challenging the idea that assisted dying always represents a free choice, when it can sometimes be seen as the only option.
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Guest Bio
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. Variety called Life After “engrossing, moving, and most importantly, confrontational,” while Indiewire said it was “passionate and persuasive… upends expectations.” Nick Allen of Roger Ebert described I Didn’t See You There as “first-person poetry in captivating motion, expressed with a singular, assured artistic voice,” while Vox called it a “must-see.” 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 syndicated series POV. Life After is slated to air on PBS’s syndicated series Independent Lens later this year and currently has a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
