Reid Davenport

Reid Davenport has made five short documentaries that explore the perspective of people with disabilities. He received a Master of Fine Arts in Documentary Film & Video from Stanford University in 2016. As an undergraduate student at the George Washington University, Reid received the Luther Rice Collaborative Fellowship to travel to Western Europe and document the lack of physical accessibility for people with disabilities. Reid spent three weeks in Europe and produced a 28-minute documentary entitled "Wheelchair Diaries: One Step Up." His film awards include Best Short Documentary at the 2013 Awareness Film Festival (“Wheelchair Diaries”), the Artistic Visions Award at the 2016 Big Sky Documentary Festival (“A Cerebral Game”) and the Enerson Foundation Production Grant (“RAMPED UP”). He also co-founded an organization called Through My Lens, which teaches students with and without disabilities how to collaboratively make films. He hopes that this will lead to more narratives from the perspectives of people with disabilities.

Film and disability

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