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Lyntoria Newton


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Lyntoria Newton (Co-Producer) is a documentary filmmaker and producer based in Chicago. She has produced content for outlets such as The Boston Globe, The University of Michigan and The Ford Foundation, and produced two seasons of Basic Able, a satirical podcast created by Reid Davenport devoted to disrupting ableism. She served as an impact producer on the feature documentary Mossville: When Great Trees Fall, which premiered at Full Frame where it won the Human Rights Award, as well as the If/Then short doc Status Pending. She has taught documentary filmmaking courses at the Bay Area Video Coalition, San Francisco Film School and Northwestern University. Lyntoria holds an M.F.A. in Documentary Film and Video from Stanford University.

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Life After interrogates the contradictory political ideologies surrounding death and disability while coalescing the missing voices of the disabled community in the contemporary debate around medically assisted suicide.

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