Alumnus’ Documentary Wins Truer than Fiction Award


April 24, 2023

Reid Davenport in front of the Film Independent Spirit Awards banner

Reid Davenport, B.A. ’12, won the Truer than Fiction Award at the Independent Spirit Awards for his film “I Didn’t See You There.”

According to imdb.com, the documentary by Davenport, a graduate of the School of Media and Public Affairs, tells the story from his perspective of the spectacle of a circus tent that goes up outside his Oakland apartment, which he uses to launch into a meditative journey exploring the history of freakdom, vision and (in)visibility. Shot entirely from director Reid Davenport's physical perspective - mounted to his wheelchair or handheld - the film serves as an unequivocal rebuke to the norm of disabled people being seen and not heard.

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