“Passionate and persuasive… upends expectations”
“Engrossing, moving, and most importantly, confrontational”
“Cinematic rigor and full-hearted empathy”
“A decidedly complex work”
“Sensitive exploration… views things from a different angle”
— Variety
“Going to rock your world”
“Among the most surprising, insightful, moving, and politically far-reaching docs I’ve seen in a long while”
“Unspools like a thriller”
“Lays bare an entire fault line”
“Profound and unflinching, this documentary engages in philosophical terrain that is treacherous, challenging, and ultimately rich and necessary. Life After looks closely and critically at where progressive values of bodily autonomy and individual choice collide with latent fears of disability and an unequal value of the lives of disabled people. In doing so, Reid untangles an issue at the heart of our moral societal standing.”
— Ash Hoyle, Sundance Film Festival
Moviemaker | 09.25.25
Care and Consent: How the Life After Team Navigated Ethical Disability Filmmaking
The New York Times | 07.17.2025
Democracy Now! | 07.22.2025
“Life After”: Film Exposes How Medicaid Cuts, Assisted Dying Laws May Bring Disabled to Early Graves
SLANT Magazine | 07.13.2025
‘Life After’ Review: Reid Davenport’s Powerfully Constructed Look at Right-to-Die Policy
Disco Journal | 08.14.25
New film explores life before, during and after the right-to-die movement
Talkhouse | 07.18.2025
As a Disabled Filmmaker, I Don’t Owe You Radical Transparency
In Review Online | 07.18.2025
The Good Newsroom | 07.25.2025
‘Life After’ Spotlights the Dangers of Assisted Suicide Bills for the Disabled Community
Daily Screens | 07.29.2025
RoughDraft Atlanta | 08.01.2025
Talking with Reid Davenport and Colleen Cassingham of ‘Life After’
Honi Soit | 08.05.2025
“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.”
— Devika Girish, Film Comment
Filmmaker Magazine | 01.27.2025
“Bringing Light to Darkness Does Motivate My Choice:” Editor Don Bernier on Life After
Filmmaker Magazine | 01.27.2025
“The Onus Always Comes Back to Producers’ Creativity”: Producer Colleen Cassingham on Life After
Slug Magazine | 01.27.2025
Interview: Reid Davenport Returns To Sundance with Important Questions in Life After
Forbes | 01.27.2025
Interview: When The Right To Die Becomes A Way To Save Government Money
Screen International | 01.27.2025
‘Life After’ Review: Sensitive exploration of assisted dying within the disabled community
Indiewire | 01.27.2025
‘Life After’ Review: A Passionate and Surprising Argument for the Disabled Community
Slate | 01.30.2025
Film Comment | 01.27.2025
Filmmaker Magazine | 01.27.2025
“This Shoot Collapsed That Separation Completely:” Director Reid Davenport on Life After
Documentary Magazine | 01.28.2025
AV Club | 02.04.2025
The Contending | 02.05.2025
Sundance 2025: Which Films Might End Up In the 2026 Oscar Race
The New Yorker | 02.07.2025
Independents' Days: Richard Brody’s Standouts from Sundance 2025
First Showing | 02.10.2025
Sundance 2025: Best of the Fest - 10 Favorite Films Worth Watching
Science.org | 03.13.2025
Toronto Star | 04.25.2025
‘We’ll just make our own films’: Disability rights advocates in spotlight at Hot Docs
The Gotham | 06.27.2022
The Gotham Announces Project Market Slate for Gotham Week 2022
POV Magazine | 03.16.2022
Variety | 04.06.2023
Rooftop Films Announces 2023 Filmmakers Fund Grant Recipients
Sundance Institute | 07.24.2023
Colleen Cassingham selected as Sundance Institute’s Producers Lab Fellow