{"id":224123,"date":"2025-09-13T17:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T17:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/224123\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T17:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T17:41:10","slug":"come-see-me-in-the-good-light-holds-emotional-ciff-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/224123\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Come See Me In The Good Light’ Holds Emotional CIFF Screening"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe 21st edition of the Camden International Film Festival<\/a> in Maine celebrated its opening in the most emotional fashion imaginable, with a screening of the award-winning documentary Come See Me in the Good Light<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tRyan White<\/a>\u2019s film, an expected Oscar contender, tells the love story of poets Andrea Gibson<\/a> and Megan Falley<\/a>, and how they responded to Gibson\u2019s cancer diagnosis in 2021 and a recurrence of the disease the next year. The surprising degree of joy and laughter the couple was able to experience together, even as Gibson learned their cancer was terminal, has touched audiences since the film debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn July 14, Gibson passed away, just under a month shy of their 50th birthday. On Thursday night, Falley made her first public appearance since her wife\u2019s passing, attending the CIFF screening of the documentary and taking part in a conversation afterwards. At the request of moderator Beadie Finzi, Falley shared words she wrote the day after her wife\u2019s passing. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe morning I woke up without Andrea in this world,\u201d Falley read, \u201cI wrote my first line of poetry in ages: \u2018Come back to me as lightning,\u2019 I pleaded to the page, \u2018a certain snap in the sky.\u2019 The poem scribbled in a sleep-deprived stupor of grief went on to list the many forms I want Andrea to return to me in. Turns out that\u2019s just about every form imaginable, all kinds of weather, the entire spectrum of flora and fauna, flotsam, jetsam.\u201d (Falley paused to add with a laugh, \u201cI\u2019m glad I got some [flowery] words in there. They [Andrea] would not appreciate any of that.\u201d).<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Megan<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tMegan Falley attends the \u2018Come See Me in the Good Light\u2019 screening at the 2025 Tribeca Festival on June 7, 2025 in New York City.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDia Dipasupil\/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival<\/p>\n

\n\tFalley continued, describing the ways she wants Andrea to return to her: \u201c\u2019Every shade on the color wheel of emotion, fury and wonder, creativity and longing, faith and doubt. Come back to me as doubt,\u2019 I wrote. \u2018Visit me as the voice in my head that says I\u2019m overinterpreting, imagining it all. Come in the form of losing all my faith for a single day and come back as something undeniable \u2014 our initials carved into a tree we\u2019d never seen. My love, I cannot bear to lose you. Let me find you again in everything.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe added, \u201cI have a sweet story about that. [Author] Glennon Doyle and [gold medal-winning soccer star] Abby Wambach, after I posted that, sent me a picture of our initials carved into the tree in their front lawn. They\u2019re wonderful people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhite attended the screening at the Strand Theatre in Rockland with producer Jessica Hargrave<\/a>, as well as Falley.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"(L-R)<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t(L-R) Megan Falley, Ryan White and Andrea Gibson attend the \u2018Come See Me In The Good Light\u2019 premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 2025.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNeilson Barnard\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI miss Andrea so, so much,\u201d he told the audience. \u201cIt\u2019s only been two months\u2026 Andrea was able to come to Sundance where we premiered and then they virtually stopped traveling. So, normally at these events, Andrea and Meg would be popping up behind us on a Zoom screen and Jess [Hargrave] and I would be saying nothing. And the fact that that\u2019s not happening right now is incredibly gut wrenching for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis is a life-changing film. I can speak for both of us,\u201d White continued. \u201cJess and I have been best friends since we were little kids. We\u2019ve made a lot of films together going back to when we were nine years old\u2026 This was the most joyful experience that we\u2019ve ever had in our creative lives. And I think that term, \u2018privilege of a lifetime,\u2019 gets thrown around pretty loosely. But I think for us getting to make this film \u2014 I\u2019m sure Andrea would disagree with me if they were here right now \u2014 I cannot imagine a bigger privilege in my career moving forward than getting to be with the two of them for the last two years. And I\u2019m okay with that if that is as good as it gets in my career, if that is the capstone for feeling that privilege.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHargrave spoke to the way she has been impacted by spending time with Gibson and Falley.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe big broad strokes lesson for me was to appreciate the everyday and to be grateful for what I have because I may not have it,\u201d she observed. \u201cI know I won\u2019t have it forever and I don\u2019t know when that day will come. One of the things I say to myself sometimes is, \u2018I\u2019ve got these three weeks,\u2019 which I love because it\u2019s like we don\u2019t know what\u2019s coming. I actually don\u2019t even know if I have these three weeks, but I\u2019d like to think that I do and what am I going to do with them? Spend some time worrying about that thing that\u2019s actually quite meaningless, getting mad at that person cutting me off in traffic? I\u2019m not doing that. What if it\u2019s my only three weeks? I\u2019m going to spend them differently. So that\u2019s something I tell myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCome See Me in the Good Light has won top jury awards at the Seattle International Film Festival and Boulder International Film Festival, as well as audience awards at Boulder, the Sundance Film Festival, the Provincetown International Film Festival, the Cleveland International Film Festival, and Hot Docs in Toronto. It premieres globally on Apple TV+<\/a> on November 14.<\/p>\n

\n\tFinzi, co-director of Doc Society, asked Falley to offer a recommendation of one of Gibson\u2019s books for those interested in exploring the late poet\u2019s works. \u201cI always think with poetry the most recent\u2019s the best,\u201d Falley replied. \u201cSo I\u2019d go for You Better Be Lightning.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 21st edition of the Camden International Film Festival in Maine celebrated its opening in the most emotional…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":224124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[46853,4964,121526,121527,171,121528,46856,53,121529,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-224123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-andrea-gibson","9":"tag-apple-tv","10":"tag-camden-international-film-festival","11":"tag-come-see-me-in-the-good-light","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-jessica-hargrave","14":"tag-megan-falley","15":"tag-movies","16":"tag-ryan-white","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115198223529085452","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}