Come See Me in the Good Light

Andrea Gibson, the Poet Laureate of Colorado, grew up in a rural town in Maine, and built a career in spoken word that carried them from small cafes to sold-out rock clubs. The poetry that inspired hundreds of thousands was written as a roadmap for the person Andrea wanted to be. For most of their life, Andrea struggled with panic attacks, suicidal ideation, and a debilitating fear of illness. Then Andrea was diagnosed with cancer, and everything changed. Instead of spiraling into darkness, Andrea came out of surgery feeling lighter, their heart flung open. Shame disappeared, and clarity found them. They were the person they wanted to be.

Andrea’s relationship with their partner Meg, also a poet, transforms into a rollercoaster of chemotherapy infusions and blood tests. “Every three weeks,” Andrea says, “I find out I’m living, I’m dying, I’m living, I’m dying.” The couple scraps the narratives they had written for their future and discovers that life is best lived between the big moments of victory and despair, where the small moments come alive to be cherished.

This is not a story about dying. It’s a story about living.

Winner of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival – Festival Favorite Award. Presented in partnership with Sundance Institute.

“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

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