Description
With her first feature Suncoast Flixtor as a director, Laura Chinn incorporates her own experiences into the narrative. She takes some creative liberties, such as altering the name of the hospice where Schiavo lived from Woodside to Suncoast. Chinn also chooses to omit certain details about her personal life, like her upbringing as a Scientologist, leaving room for a potential future exploration. Through the protagonist Doris, who has dedicated herself to the care of her terminally ill brother Max since childhood, Chinn effectively expresses her own feelings of loss and sorrow.