This Bright Light
Tamarin Luchessa seemed destined to burn brightly. An Olympic-bound rhythmic gymnast, her course was derailed by a diabetes diagnosis as a teenager. Her life became marked by medical crises, personal struggles, and eventually a kidney and pancreas transplant that altered her personality in ways even her family and friends could not recognize—only for her original self to return when the organs later began to fail. Sonoma County filmmaker Alexandra Lexton follows Tamarin’s mother, Cindy, from the mysteries of cellular memory into more ethereal terrain, where mediums, intuitives, and signs from beyond suggest our connections may extend past the physical body. Moving between science and spirit, this deeply personal docudrama chronicles a mother-daughter pact to help others, offering a loving reflection on life and death. —Michelle Svenson
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Expected Guests
ALEXANDRA LEXTON: Director
CINDY REYNOLDS: Film Subject