A black-and-white archival image of Elizabeth Bouvia, center, in her wheelchair. She holds a pillow in her lap, and gazes ahead — mouth agape and head slightly to the side. Around her, four male lawyers in suits are staged around her, staring at her seriously. Behind her to the left, one of the lawyers crosses his arms at his chest while looking down at her, as if to scold her. Text has Sundance logo, Life After directed by Reid Davenport, Watch the gripping, Sundance Award-winning documentary that foregrounds the missing voices of the disability community in the contemporary debate about assisted dying. Quote ''Cinematic Rigor and Full-Hearted Empathy'' - USA Today. Quote ''Engrossing, Moving, & Confrontational'' - Indiewire. PRAF logo, text box says ''Stream now with audio descriptions & captions available. Bottom text box says ''Watch online now via Gathr & PRAF''
 

Patients Rights Action Fund is proud to present LIFE AFTER for at-home streaming this month.

 

LIFE AFTER, a gripping documentary that foregrounds the missing voices of the disability community in the contemporary debate about assisted suicide, won the US Documentary Special Jury Award at its premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival last month. It is the second feature from disabled filmmaker Reid Davenport, who won the 2022 Sundance Directing Award (U.S. Documentary) for I DIDN’T SEE YOU THERE.

 

Film Comment praises the film’s “keen, structural analysis of our presumptions about what a good life looks like.”

 

Variety calls it “an engrossing, moving and most importantly confrontational movie about the right to die and disability justice.”

 

Davenport recently spoke with Documentary about disabled filmmaking and the film’s broader political context.

 

PRAF has been in conversation with Reid throughout his course of making the film, and is proud to see it come to fruition. ED Matt Vallière spoke with Reid in early February about his filmmaking process and what he hopes the film contributes to the conversation about assisted suicide and disability justice. You can access a recording of their conversation when you rent the film below.

 

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For the next month, you can stream Life After from wherever you are.

 

Part of your rental fee will go to support our work to end assisted suicide laws. Thank you for your support! Enjoy this powerful film!

 

PRAF is a leading national, non-partisan single-issue organization that protects the rights of patients, people with disabilities, older adults, and other historically underrepresented groups from deadly harm and discrimination inherent in assisted suicide laws.

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