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Production
2023

Life After

IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund Grantee

  • headshot of director Reid Davenport wearing a yellow shirt
    Reid Davenport, Director
  • headshot of Colleen Cassingham wearing a blue jean jacket
    Colleen Cassingham, Producer
  • headshot of producer Jess Devaney wearing a dark collared shirt
    Jess Devaney, Producer
  • headshot of producer Lyntoria Newton wearing a brown top and curly black hair with golden brown highlights
    Lyntoria Newton, Producer
A Black man leads a group of protesters in front of the Supreme Court, kneeling with his crutches outspread and his mouth mid-yell, while holding a small American flag. A neon pink banner to the right reads, "NOT DEAD. We want to live!"

About the Project

Life After interrogates the contradictory political ideologies surrounding death and disability while coalescing the missing voices of the disabled community in the contemporary debate around medically assisted suicide.

Project Team

    headshot of director Reid Davenport wearing a yellow shirt

    Reid Davenport

    Reid Davenport (Director) makes films about disability from an overtly political perspective. His first feature documentary, I Didn't See You There, won the U.S. Documentary Directing Award at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Davenport was named a 2020 DOC NYC 40 Under 40 Filmmaker, a 2020 Points North Fellow, a 2020 Creative Capital Recipient, and a 2017 TED Fellow. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Documentary Film and Video from Stanford University.

    headshot of Colleen Cassingham wearing a blue jean jacket

    Colleen Cassingham

    Colleen Cassingham is a producer at Multitude Films, where her work focuses on politically committed artful nonfiction. Most recently, she produced the Queer Futures shorts collection in association with Chicken & Egg Pictures (CPH:DOX 2023) and is currently producing Reid Davenport's second feature, Life After. Colleen co-produced It's Only Life After All, about the Indigo Girls (Sundance 2023), and her credits as Associate Producer include Pray Away (Tribeca 2020), Through Our Eyes: Apart (Provincetown 2020), Call Center Blues (SXSW 2020), Always In Season (2019), The Feeling Of Being Watched (Tribeca 2018), and Love the Sinner (Tribeca 2017), which have been distributed by Netflix, Topic, HBOMax, POV, and Independent Lens. She is a 2023 Sundance Producing Fellow and a 2023 Impact Partners Producers Fellow. She was a Video Consortium/Sony 2021 Mentor, a 2019 Points North fellow, and a 2018 UnionDocs Collaborative Studio fellow.

    headshot of producer Jess Devaney wearing a dark collared shirt

    Jess Devaney

    Jessica Devaney (Producer) is a Brooklyn-based producer and the founder and president of Multitude Films. Her latest films include Netflix Original Pray Away in partnership with Ryan Murphy and Blumhouse, Oscar-shortlisted Call Center Blues (Topic), and Apart, an episode of the Sesame Workshop series Through Our Eyes (HBO Max). She also produced Sundance award-winning and IDA-nominated Always in Season (Independent Lens 2020), Livingston Reporting award-winning The Feeling of Being Watched (POV 2019), dubbed “a real-world conspiracy thriller” by Variety, and Peabody-nominated Roll Red Roll (POV, Netflix 2019). Additional credits include Critic’s Choice-nominated Speed Sisters (Netflix), American Psychological Association award-winning Love the Sinner (Amazon), and Call Her Ganda (POV). Her films have screened at top festivals, including Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca, BlackStar, and Telluride. Jessica founded QueerDoc and the Queer Producers Network and was a Sundance Edit and Story Lab fellow, Women at Sundance fellow, and Sundance Creative Producing Lab advisor. She received DOC NYC and TOPIC’s inaugural 40 Under 40 Award and the 2019 Cinereach Producers Award.

    headshot of producer Lyntoria Newton wearing a brown top and curly black hair with golden brown highlights

    Lyntoria Newton

    Lyntoria Newton (Co-Producer) is a documentary filmmaker and producer based in Chicago. She has produced content for outlets such as The Boston Globe, The University of Michigan and The Ford Foundation, and produced two seasons of Basic Able, a satirical podcast created by Reid Davenport devoted to disrupting ableism. She served as an impact producer on the feature documentary Mossville: When Great Trees Fall, which premiered at Full Frame where it won the Human Rights Award, as well as the If/Then short doc Status Pending. She has taught documentary filmmaking courses at the Bay Area Video Coalition, San Francisco Film School and Northwestern University. Lyntoria holds an M.F.A. in Documentary Film and Video from Stanford University.