Jason DaSilva (born 1978) is an American and Canadian documentary film director, producer and writer, and a disability rights community member. He is best known for the Emmy Award-winning documentary When I Walk, which follows his diagnosis of primary progressive multiple sclerosis over seven years as he progresses from a cane to a walker and then a wheelchair. He is also the founder of the non-profit organization AXS Lab and of AXS Map, a crowd-sourced, Google map based platform that rates the accessibility of businesses. His work joins first-person documentary filmmaking with accessibility technology.
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In 2015, When I Walk won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Programming
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