Reid Davenport
Reid Davenport is an American filmmaker. He won the Sundance Film Festival's U.S. Documentary Directing Award in 2022 for his film, I Didn't See You There.
Reid Davenport
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- Name
- Reid Davenport
- Education
- George Washington University (BA) Stanford University (MFA)
- Occupation
- film director
- Awards
- Guggenheim Fellow (2026)
- Fields
- documentary film
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship
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• Name — Reid Davenport • Education — George Washington University (BA) Stanford University (MFA) • Occupation — film director • Awards — Guggenheim Fellow (2026) • Website — https: www.reiddavenport.com/
Early life and education
Early life and education
Davenport grew up in Bethel, Connecticut. He has a BA in Journalism and Mass Communication from The George Washington University and an MFA in documentary film from Stanford University. Davenport has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair.
Career
Career
Davenport's 2022 film I Didn't See You There was shot in his perspective from his electric wheelchair. For it he received the 2022 U.S. Documentary Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival. In 2025, Davenport directed the film Life After about Elizabeth Bouvia. In April 2026, Davenport was awarded the 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship in Film-Video.
Filmography
Filmography
• Wheelchair Diaries: One Step Up (2013) • A Cerebral Game (2015) • I Didn't See You There (2022) • Life After (2025)
Reid Davenport at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival Awards
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- 1.Carey, Matthew. Doc Talk Podcast: 'Life After' Filmmaker Reid Davenport And Producer Colleen Cassingham Investigate Groundbreaking Right-To-Die Case. July 16, 2025.
- 2.Oakland director turns camera around on disability with documentary 'I Didn't See You There'.
- 3.Strategies for Seeing Differently. DC/DOX.
- 4.Reid Davenport MFA in Documentary Film at Stanford University. documentaryfilm.stanford.edu.
- 5.Redefining Disability through the Lens of Art. GW Magazine.
- 6.'Life After' Review: What the End Means. The New York Times. 2025-07-17.
- 7.“Societal Failures Are Dictating What People Do”: Reid Davenport's 'Life After' Connects Assisted Dying With a Fear of Disability | International Documentary Association. www.documentary.org. January 28, 2025.
- 8.Announcing the 2026 Guggenheim Fellows. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. April 14, 2026.
- 9.2026 Guggenheim Fellowships Go to Sonya Clark, John Miller, and American Artist. ArtNews.com.
- 10.Horton, Adrian. 'I wanted people to inhabit my body': an innovative film about disability. January 11, 2023.
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