As a Director Jason DaSilva has been a prolific filmmaker for over the past 20 years. He has directed four short films (Olivia’s Puzzle, A Song For Daniel, Twins of Mankala, First Steps) and four feature length-documentary films. Olivia’s Puzzle premiered at the 2003 Sundance Festival and qualified for an Academy Award. In 2005 Jason was diagnosed with primary progressive MS and he turned the camera on himself, advocating and giving a voice to people with disabilities through his films.

Following the success of “When I Walk” (Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Programming, 2013 Sundance premiere, Hot Docs best picture). Jason premiered his sequel “When We Walk”, in 2019 at the Hot Docs Film Festival, which won best documentary at CAAMFest, and had its New York debut at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival.  Jason is currently working on the last of the trilogy “When They Walk”.

In 2008 Jason setup AXS LAB, with the aim to engage audiences to explore the disability experience using new media, films and the power of story. AXS MAP is its primary technology branch, the largest online database in North America of accessibility, giving access to thousands of users a month for free to map and research the accessibility of establishments and public places.  In 2021 AXS Lab launched their first year of AXS Film Fund, a fund to support documentary filmmakers and nonfiction new media creators of color with disabilities in their endeavors to create content and tell stories.

Jason has also won the following awards: AAPD Mobility Magazine’s Person of the Year, the Paul E. Hearn Leadership Award, the Christopher Award for Excellence in Film and, Made in New York recognition at the Gotham Awards, and most recently, is being recognized by NYWIFT with the Loreen Arbus Changemaker Award at the MUSE awards.