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Jason DaSilva

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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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News and Documentary Emmy Award 1
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1978 1
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    Jason DaSilva (born July 26, 1978)
  • Lead sentence [nationality]
    is an American and Canadian documentary film director
  • Career, When I Walk
    In 2015, When I Walk won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Programming
  • Associated With: Film, Lead sentence [associated-with]
    is an American and Canadian documentary film director, producer, writer
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