Reid Davenport makes documentaries about disability from an overtly political perspective. His latest feature, The Life After, which coalesces the missing voices of the disability community in the debate about assisted dying, is now playing at Film Forum in New York City. The film won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Reid’s first feature, I Didn’t See You There, won the Directing Award for U.S. Documentary at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, the Grand Jury Prize at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and the McBaine Bay Area Documentary Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival. It had a national broadcast on POV in 2023. In 2020, Reid was named to DOC NYC’s “40 Filmmakers Under 40,” was a 2017 TED fellow and gave a TED Talk about incorporating his own literal body into his filmmaking. Reid holds an MFA in Documentary Film & Video from Stanford University and a BA in Journalism and Mass Communication from the George Washington University.
