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Markdown	[Skip to main content](https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/life-after/#main-content) [![](https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/il-logo-1.png)](https://www.pbs.org/independentlens "Independent Lens") - [Our Documentaries](https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/our-documentaries/) - [Coming Soon](https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/coming-soon/) - [Engage](https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/engage/) - [Blog](https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog) - [Download the PBS App](https://www.pbs.org/pbs-video-app/) Menu Close [Our Documentaries](https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/our-documentaries/) [Coming Soon](https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/coming-soon/) [Engage](https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/engage/) [Blog](https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog) [Download the PBS App](https://www.pbs.org/pbs-video-app/) A part of PBS, America's Home for Documentaries ![](https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/LIFEAFTER_KeyArt_864x1280.jpg) # Life After Premiered November 03, 2025 Directed by Reid Davenport A filmmaker investigates assisted dying through the lens of disabled voices missing from the debate. Watch with PBS Passport 01:23:41 Preview ## About the Documentary Disabled filmmaker Reid Davenport investigates assisted dying and uncovers how ableism, policy, and systemic failures can make death seem like the only option. With gripping stories and a personal mission, Life After explores who gets real choice, and who doesn’t, in life and death. ### The Filmmakers ![](https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/LIFEAFTER_1-1_-Headshot_ReidDavenport_500x500.jpg) Reid Davenport Reid Davenport makes documentary films from a disability rights perspective. Davenport’s film, I Didn’t See You There, won the Directing Award for U.S. Documentary at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and the Truer Than Fiction Award at the 2023 Independent Spirit Awards. ![](https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/LIFEAFTER_1-1_-Headshot_ColleenCassingham_500x500.jpg) Colleen Cassingham Colleen Cassingham is a producer at Multitude Films focused on politically committed, artful nonfiction. She produced the IDA Awards-nominated shorts collection Queer Futures (CPH:DOX 2023) which launched on Criterion Channel. She is a 2023-2024 Sundance Institute Producers Lab Fellow and Impact Partners Documentary Producers Fellow. ![](https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/LIFEAFTER_1-1_Headshot_Jess-Devaney_2_-Courtesy-of-Staci-Janik_Square_500x500.jpg) Jessica Devaney Jess Devaney is a producer and the founder and president of Multitude Films. Their latest films include the Netflix Original Power, Oscar-shortlisted How We Get Free, the Indigo Girls film It’s Only Life After All, Emmy Award-winning Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power, Pray Away, Always in Season, and The Feeling of Being Watched, among others. Full Credits ### Full Credits a MULTITUDE FILMS production in association with STRAW HOUSE PRODUCTIONS a film by Reid Davenport DIRECTED BY Reid Davenport PRODUCED BY Colleen Cassingham EDITED BY Don Bernier, ACE CINEMATOGRAPHER Amber Fares ORIGINAL MUSIC BY Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Jess Devaney Anya Rous EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Ruth Ann Harnisch EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Carrie Lozano Lois Vossen EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Dawn Bonder Daniel J. 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Readable Markdown	![](https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/LIFEAFTER_KeyArt_864x1280.jpg) A filmmaker investigates assisted dying through the lens of disabled voices missing from the debate. ## About the Documentary Disabled filmmaker Reid Davenport investigates assisted dying and uncovers how ableism, policy, and systemic failures can make death seem like the only option. With gripping stories and a personal mission, Life After explores who gets real choice, and who doesn’t, in life and death. ### The Filmmakers ![](https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/LIFEAFTER_1-1_-Headshot_ReidDavenport_500x500.jpg) Reid Davenport Reid Davenport makes documentary films from a disability rights perspective. Davenport’s film, I Didn’t See You There, won the Directing Award for U.S. Documentary at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and the Truer Than Fiction Award at the 2023 Independent Spirit Awards. ![](https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/LIFEAFTER_1-1_-Headshot_ColleenCassingham_500x500.jpg) Colleen Cassingham Colleen Cassingham is a producer at Multitude Films focused on politically committed, artful nonfiction. She produced the IDA Awards-nominated shorts collection Queer Futures (CPH:DOX 2023) which launched on Criterion Channel. She is a 2023-2024 Sundance Institute Producers Lab Fellow and Impact Partners Documentary Producers Fellow. ![](https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/LIFEAFTER_1-1_Headshot_Jess-Devaney_2_-Courtesy-of-Staci-Janik_Square_500x500.jpg) Jessica Devaney Jess Devaney is a producer and the founder and president of Multitude Films. Their latest films include the Netflix Original Power, Oscar-shortlisted How We Get Free, the Indigo Girls film It’s Only Life After All, Emmy Award-winning Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power, Pray Away, Always in Season, and The Feeling of Being Watched, among others. ## Awards ### 2026 News and Documentary Emmy Awards Best Documentary Nominee Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary Nominee Outstanding Direction: Documentary Nominee Outstanding Editing: Documentary Nominee
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