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Filmmaker makes his life, and disability, his subject
Jason DaSilva has discovered something about making documentaries: They don’t really end. “The film doesn’t stop,” DaSilva said this week over the phone from his home in New York. “Every time I think it’s going to quiet down, it picks up again.” DaSilva’s film, “When I Walk,” is a chronicle of his life — a life that changed radically in late 2006, at age 25, when he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. The movie shows how the untreatable disease, in which the body’s immune system attacks cells in the nervous system, has affected DaSilva’s legs, hands and vision. It also details how he has fought to continue making films and live a normal life…Read More