Reid Davenport
Reid Davenport (2021) is a documentary filmmaker based in Brooklyn. He was recently named to DOC NYC’s “40 Filmmakers Under 40” in 2020. His first feature film, “I Didn’t See You There,” was supported by Creative Capital, Sundance Film Institute, NBC, The Henry Ford Foundation and was included in the 2020 IFP Week. Davenport was named a 2020 Points North Fellow and a 2020 Bay Area Video Coalition MediaMaker Fellow in connection to the project. He is a 2017 TED Fellow and gave a TED Talk at the annual conference in Vancouver. He has received an Enerson Foundation Production Grant (“Ramped Up”), the Artistic Visions Award at the 2016 Big Sky Documentary Festival (“A Cerebral Game”) and Best Short Documentary award at the 2013 Awareness Film Festival (“Wheelchair Diaries”). Davenport is also a podcaster whose video podcast, “Basic Able,” was fully funded by The Henry Ford Foundation in 2018. Davenport is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Through My Lens, a nonprofit with a mission to amplify voices of and issues related to people with disabilities through original content, media consultancy and personal instruction. As an undergraduate at George Washington University, Davenport studied under filmmaker Jason Osder, with whom he now collaborates. In 2016, Davenport received an M.F.A. in Documentary Film & Video from Stanford University.
As a fellow, Reid will work on his documentary, “Life After,” which explores the contradictory political ideologies surrounding medically-assisted suicide and disability.