Both an investigative journalism piece and a first-person perspective, “Life After” derives its strength from clashing these two elements together and finding its story in the tension between them. Filmmaker Reid Davenport sets out to find what happened to Elizabeth Bouvia, a disabled Californian woman who demanded the right to terminate her own life in 1983. Adding his own personal perspective as a filmmaker living with disability, Davenport weaves an engrossing, moving and most importantly confrontational movie about the right to die and disability justice.
Davenport’s quest to find out what happened to Bouvia comes from his hope that she is still alive and somehow lived a long and
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