Apple TV+ has taken global rights to “Come See Me in the Good Light,” the documentary that won Sundance’s 2025 Festival Favorite award. The doc will premiere on Apple TV+ this fall.
Director Ryan White’s film also won the audience award at the Boulder Film Festival, Cleveland International Film Festival and Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.
“’Come See Me in the Good Light’ is a poignant and unexpectedly funny love story about poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley, who face an incurable cancer diagnosis with joy, wit, and an unshakable partnership,” the synopsis reads. “Through laughter and unwavering love, they transform pain into purpose, and mortality into a moving celebration of resilience.”
Variety‘s review noted, “’Come See Me in the Good Light’ is very good on the existential. But Gibson and Falley are even more generous in sharing their journey through the medical morass,” wrote Lisa Kennedy in the review. “There’s a closeness here that allows viewers to spend a year at the poets’ home in Longmont, Colo.; to accompany the couple on oncologist visits and chemo treatments; and to hover around their bed as the pair ponder the silly and the utterly serious,” the review said.
White, who previously helmed “Pamela, A Love Story,” “The Keepers” and “Visible: Out on Television,” produced alongside Jessica Hargrave, Tig Notaro and Stef Willen.
The documentary includes an original song by Grammy winner Sara Bareilles and Grammy and Emmy winner Brandi Carlile, written by Andrea Gibson, Bareilles and Carlile.
Executive producers were Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, Lauren Haber, Joe Lewis, Rachel Eggebeen, Colin King Miller, Catherine Carlile, Brandi Carlile, Susan Yeagley, Kevin Nealon, Galia Gichon, Bareilles, Amanda Doyle, Christi Offutt, Soraida Bedoya, Melony Lewis and Adam Lewis.
Coming up this year, Apple Original Films include “F1,” starring Brad Pitt, premiering June 27 in theaters, and “Fountain of Youth,” Guy Ritchie’s upcoming feature with Natalie Portman and John Krasinski.
