Living in the Wake of Impact
After a tragic car accident leaves Sarah Milburn paralyzed, she teams up with Texas personal injury attorney Charla Aldous to hold corporations accountable. Together, they secure a comprehensive life care plan that restores independence, purpose, and the ability to mentor others living with spinal cord injuries.
About the Film
Living in the Wake of Impact is a powerful documentary by Filmmaker Sarah Moshman that explores what happens after a life-altering injury, long after the initial trauma fades from public view. Through deeply personal stories and expert insight, the film reveals the resilience, advocacy, and collaboration required to rebuild lives at the intersection of medicine and law.
Featuring LegalMed180 CEO Leigh Anne Levy, whose lifelong career in trauma care and life care planning anchors the narrative, the film brings visibility to the gaps that injured individuals often face within complex healthcare and legal systems. By centering lived experience alongside medical and legal expertise, Living in the Wake of Impact challenges viewers to see beyond diagnoses, verdicts, and numbers and instead understand the full human story of recovery, dignity, and possibility.
Why this Film Matters
Humanizing Life After Catastrophic Injury
Catastrophic injuries do not end at the hospital doors or courtroom verdicts. This film sheds light on the lifelong realities individuals face physically, emotionally, and socially long after the moment of impact. By sharing authentic lived experiences, the film helps audiences understand the true scope of recovery and resilience.
Bridging the Gap Between Medicine and Law
Living in the Wake of Impact reveals the critical disconnect that often exists between healthcare providers and the legal system. Through the lens of life care planning, the film demonstrates how collaboration across disciplines is essential to securing appropriate care, resources, and justice for injured individuals.
Elevating the Role of Life Care Planning
Life care plans are more than documents. They are roadmaps for a meaningful future. The film highlights how comprehensive, research driven life care planning tells the full story of a person’s needs, goals, and potential, ensuring individuals are never reduced to numbers or limitations.
Showcases What’s Possible With the Right Support
Through Sarah Milburn’s journey, the film illustrates how access to proper resources can transform lives. From independence and education to innovation and advocacy, her story proves that when individuals are supported holistically, they can thrive beyond expectations.
Advocates for Justice and Policy Change
The film documents real advocacy in action, including the fight against legislation like SB 30 and HB 4860 that threatened to limit critical resources for injured individuals. By bringing these issues to light, the film emphasizes why informed policy and sustained advocacy are essential to protecting vulnerable communities.
Calls for Awareness, Empathy, and Action
Ultimately, Living in the Wake of Impact is a call to see injured individuals not as broken, but as resilient. It invites medical professionals, legal advocates, policymakers, and the public to rethink how care, justice, and dignity are delivered and to play a role in shaping a more compassionate system.
The People Behind The Story
Sarah Milburn
Survivor & Storyteller
Carolyn Milburn
Sarah's Mother
John Milburn
Sarah's Father
Charla Aldous
Trial Attorney & Advocate
Dr. Juan Latorre
Spinal Cord Specialist
Travis
Trainer
Leigh Anne Levy
Life Care Planner
Sarah Moshman
Director
Support the Film
Supporting Living in the Wake of Impact through film screenings helps extend its reach and its impact. Each screening creates space for meaningful conversation, education, and connection around life after catastrophic injury and the vital collaboration between medicine and law.
By supporting a screening, you are not only helping this story reach new audiences, but also directly supporting LegalMed180’s ability to produce future films that bring important, often underrepresented issues to light. These films are designed to educate, advocate, and spark change by amplifying lived experiences, expert insight, and the realities that too often remain unseen.
Your support helps ensure that powerful stories continue to be told and that awareness leads to action.
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