OTHER SIDE

By Heather HOGAN, Carter OAKLEY

REDINS - as FEST

Documentary - Completed 3

Death is inevitable, suffering may be optional.

Festivals
& Awards

SXSW 2025
Documentary Spotlight
    • Year of production
    • 3
    • Genres
    • Documentary, Social issues, Female director
    • Countries
    • USA
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Budget
    • 0 - 0.3 M$
    • Duration
    • 90 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Heather HOGAN, Carter OAKLEY
    • Producer(s)
    • Celia ANISKOVICH (Dial Tone Films)
    • Synopsis
    • After three separate cancer diagnoses, and undergoing nauseating and difficult treatment for each one, Connecticut-based activist Lynda Bluestein set her sights on medical aid in dying.

      This compassionate end-of-life option was not available in her home state, so she filed a lawsuit against the state of Vermont to gain access to their Death With Dignity law, Act 39 – and she won.

      A rich portrait of a fearless activist, matriarch, and fallible human, this feature documentary follows Lynda and her family over the course of a year as they navigate life and prepare for her inevitable death. But will her life end the way she intends it to?