Come See Me in the Good Light
Spoken word performer/Colorado poet laureate Andrea Gibson and their dedicated partner Megan Falley aren’t going to let something like ovarian cancer keep them from living life to the fullest in this intimate, surprisingly funny Sundance 2025 award-winning doc produced by Tig Notaro.
Executive Producers Catherine and Brandi Carlile scheduled to introduce the May 17 screening, followed by a post-screening Q&A with Director Ryan White and producers Jessica Hargrave and Stef Willen. Producer Stef Willen also scheduled to attend the May 18 screening.
Lovers of queer love and queer cinema won't want to miss the May 17 screening because Three Dollar Bill Cinema will be raffling off tickets to the Queer & Trans Film Festival!
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This film is also generously co-sponsored by Mary Rainwater & Mike Weidemann.
"The film invites us to ask ourselves: What is poetry? How does it make meaning? Why does it offer solace like so few other art forms? All this ruminating takes place even as we are transfixed by Gibson and Falley." —Lisa Kennedy, Variety
A documentary about a poet facing terminal illness. This is sure to be a downer, right? Not exactly. In Come See Me in the Good Light, director Ryan White (Pamela: A Love Story, “The Keepers”) crafts something more expansive—a deeply intimate, surprisingly joyful meditation on love and what it means to truly live. Following spoken word artist Andrea Gibson and their wife, poet Megan Falley, as they navigate the realities of Gibson’s ovarian cancer diagnosis, the film invites us into their home, capturing the mundane and the monumental in equal measure. From hospital visits to impromptu dance breaks, from late-night existential musings to the everyday tenderness of a long-held gaze, White creates a space that feels less like a documentary and more like an open door.
Winner of the Sundance 2025 Festival Favorite Award, the film finds its heartbeat in Gibson’s poetry—raw, revelatory, and laced with humor even in the face of mortality. As they prepare for one last spoken word performance, every moment carries the weight of both goodbye and celebration. With executive producers Sara Bareilles and Brandi Carlile lending their support, Come See Me in the Good Light becomes something more than a chronicle of illness—it’s a testament to art as sustenance, love as defiance, and the radical act of facing the unknown with open arms.
If you’re not sure you’re strong enough to sit through this, I implore you to bring your tissues to the theater and watch it anyway. As the film’s executive producer Glennon Doyle always says, “We can do hard things.”
—Becky Rice
- Director: Ryan White
- Principal Cast: Andrea Gibson, Megan Falley
- Country: USA
- Year: 2025
- Running Time: 104 min.
- Producer: Jessica Hargrave, Ryan White, Tig Notaro, Stef Willen
- Cinematographers: Brandon Somerhalder
- Editors: Berenice Chávez
- Music: Blake Neely
- Awards: Sundance Film Festival 2025 (Festival Favorite Award), Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 2025 (Audience Award - Feature), San Francisco International Film Festival (Audience Award: Best Documentary Feature)
- Filmography: Pamela: A Love Story (2023), Good Night Oppy (2022), Assassins (2020) Ask Dr. Ruth (2019), Serena (2016), The Case Against 8 (2014), Good Ol’ Freda (2013), Pelada (2010)
- Language: English
- Format: DCP
- International Sales: Submarine, WME