Reid Davenport

Colleen Cassingham

LIFE AFTER probes the legacy of Elizabeth Bouvia — a disabled woman who, at the age of 26, sought “the right to die,” provoking a national debate about autonomy, dignity, and the value of disabled lives. 

Disabled filmmaker Reid Davenport uncovers chilling echoes of her 1983 case in

contemporary stories of disabled people dying prematurely — at their own hands and from a broken health care system.

Sundance Film Festival

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BFI London Film Festival

Vancouver International Film Festival

“Among the most surprising, insightful, moving, and politically far-reaching docs I’ve seen in a long while”

Richard Brody

“That’s the strength of Life After: its keen, structural analysis of our presumptions about what a good life looks like—and who can have it— implicates us all, underlining the ethos of disposability so deeply embedded in the institutions we rely on for care.”