'Aunt Cindy and the Alchemist' Is a Headspinner Too Good to Be True

'Aunt Cindy and the Alchemist' Is a Headspinner Too Good to Be True

"Aunt Cindy and the Alchemist," a skillful and imaginative charmer of a short film playing Thursday at the Coronado Island Film Festival, is the product of local director Devin Scott's very unique approach to filmmaking. The 1960s-set short details the story of the narrator's mother, who trades in a failing marriage with an unhappy husband for a European romance with a woman the narrator simply calls Aunt Cindy. The lovers trek along the seaside…