rachel clara reed

Rachel Clara Reed is a mixed-race Chinese-American independent documentarian and trained death doula. She’s interested in the intersections of identity, resilience, grief, personal history and culture. Her first feature documentary, All We Carry, which she edited and co-produced, follows an asylum-seeking family from Honduras as they navigate the daily joys and grief of setting up life in a new place, while facing the trauma they carry with them. It won the Kathleen Bryan Edwards Award for Human Rights at the 2024 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. Rachel hosts death dinners—facilitated gatherings gently exploring our personal relationships with death and dying in order to live more deeply into life—from her home in East London.