Festival Spotlight 2025: A Conversation on Art, Love, and Legacy with COME SEE ME IN THE GOOD LIGHT
About this Event Recording
Festival Spotlight events feature exclusive conversations with the creators behind work that screened at the Sundance Film Festival, designed to share advice and insights on the creative process.
Join Sundance Collab, director Ryan White (Into the Fire), and producer Jessica Hargrave (Pamela: A Love Story) for a conversation about their intimate, heartbreaking, and unexpectedly funny documentary, Come See Me in the Good Light, chronicling poet Andrea Gibson and their spouse, poet Megan Falley, as they navigate an incurable cancer diagnosis. The film premiered in the 2025 Sundance Film Festival and was voted by audiences as a Festival Favorite.
In this Festival Spotlight, the filmmakers discuss capturing such personal moments on screen, the challenges of balancing heartbreak with hope, their collaborative process - including working with executive producers Tig Notaro, Brandi Carlile, and Sara Bareilles - and how they approached themes of grief, legacy, and living fully in the face of loss.
Whether you’re a filmmaker, poetry enthusiast, or simply moved by this remarkable story, this conversation promises insight into the creative decisions that transformed an intimate human experience into the Festival Favorite Award winner, which, as programmer Ash Hoyle says, “dares any eye to stay dry.”
Event RecordingTeam
Jessica Hargrave
Producer
Jessica Hargrave is the producer of Come See Me in the Good Light, which follows poet Andrea Gibson and their partner Megan Falley as they navigate an incurable cancer diagnosis with remarkable perspective and joy. The film, which won the Festival Favorite Award at the Sundance Film Festival, is also produced by Tig Notaro, with Executive Producers Abby Wambach, Glennon Doyle, Sara Bareilles and Brandi Carlile. Hargrave is also the producer of Into the Fire, which chronicles the tortuous journey of a mother searching for her missing biological daughter. The film was produced by Charlize Theron and premiered on Netflix, where it reached #2 for all films on the streamer.
Previously she produced Netflix’s Emmy-nominated Pamela, a love story, an intimate portrait following the trajectory of Pamela Anderson’s life and career. Hargrave also produced Amazon’s Good Night Oppy, a film about the surprising bond that formed between a robot and a team of scientists and engineers at NASA. Good Night Oppy won five Critics Choice Awards including Best Documentary and was recently nominated for seven Emmys. Prior to Oppy, Hargrave produced Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker (MTV), which was shortlisted for the Academy Award and won best documentary short at Tribeca. She is also the producer of Assassins, an Emmy-nominated film about the assassination of Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of the North Korean leader, and executive producer of Visible: Out on Television, the first documentary series on Apple TV+ which explores the history of the LGBTQ movement through the lens of television.
Hargrave is the producer of Ask Dr. Ruth (Hulu), a documentary portrait chronicling the incredible life of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, and the executive producer of The Keepers, a seven-part Emmy-nominated Netflix documentary series that investigates the unsolved murder of a young nun in Baltimore and the horrific secrets and pain that linger nearly five decades after her death. Prior to The Keepers, Hargrave was the producer/writer of Good Ol’ Freda (Magnolia Pictures), which tells the story of the Beatles’ longtime secretary Freda Kelly, and the co-producer of The Case Against 8 (HBO), a behind-the-scenes look at the five-year battle to overturn Proposition 8. The Case Against 8 was nominated for two Emmys and shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Documentary. Hargrave was the producer of marketing and distribution for Pelada (PBS, Cinetic), a journey around the world through the lens of pick-up soccer. She is a mentor with #Startwith8Hollywood and WIF.
Ryan White
Director
Ryan White is the director of Come See Me in the Good Light (Apple TV), which follows poet Andrea Gibson and their partner Megan Falley as they navigate an incurable cancer diagnosis with remarkable perspective and joy. The film won the Festival Favorite Award at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Previously, White directed Into the Fire (Netflix), Pamela, a love story (Netflix), Ask Dr. Ruth (Hulu), and Good Night Oppy (Amazon), which won two Emmys and five Critics Choice Awards. White is also the director of Visible: Out on Television, The Case Against 8, Serena, and The Keepers. White’s projects have been Oscar-shortlisted and won multiple Emmys.
Katherine Street
Moderator | Digital Course & Event Producer
Katherine "Kat" Street is an LA-based award-winning filmmaker and Philadelphia native. A cinephile at heart, she writes female-driven stories with complex (oftentimes damaged) main characters, centered around self-discovery, self-love, and belonging.
She has written numerous short-form projects, including original shorts, pilots, and features. She wrote and directed the dramatic short film “Cycles,” which received festival recognition in both acting and best romantic short. She also created her award-winning flagship web series "The New Adult,” which is currently streaming on Kweli TV.
Kat is a Stowe Story Lab SAGIndie Fellow and a participant in the BlackMagic Collective Emerging Filmmakers Initiative. In 2021, she founded the Black Film Challenge, a project that showcases filmmakers of African descent and the movies they create.
She earned her BFA from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts with a concentration in Cinematography and has literary representation with Yak Yak Mgmt.