“Come See Me in the Good Light” (2025, R) Screening & Conversation
Come See Me in the Good Light 2025 | NR, 105 min
Followed by a conversation with one of the documentary’s two protagonists, poet and writer Megan Falley
The Longmont Museum is honored to offer another opportunity to experience “Come See Me In The Good Light,” a film that captures the poignant and unexpectedly funny love story of local poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley as they face an incurable cancer diagnosis with joy, wit and unshakable partnership. Through laughter and unwavering love, they transform pain into purpose, and mortality into a moving celebration of resilience.
“Come See Me in the Good Light” premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Festival Favorite Award and went on to be nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 98th annual Academy Awards. This special screening honors Andrea Gibson’s extraordinary life, work and enduring legacy; they died in July 2025.
Special thanks to Megan Falley and to Apple for their assistance in making this screening possible.
“A slick, heartfelt portrait of two artists and soulmates going through the worst life has to offer and feeling every moment of it as deeply as they possibly can.” – RogerEbert.com
“A bright spot of sapphic representation in recent documentary film, the partnership depicted in ‘Come See Me in the Good Light’ suggests how you live your private life and love the people in it can be its own kind of artform.“ – IndieWire
Megan Falley [she/her] is a queer femme writer who has been living as a full-time touring spoken word poet, author, and teaching artist since her first of three full-length poetry collection was published in 2012. Her most recent collection, “Drive Here and Devastate Me” [Write Bloody Publishing, 2018] was heralded by Autostraddle as “a love letter to the queer community.” In 2019 Falley co-wrote “How Poetry Can Change Your Heart” with her partner, poet Andrea Gibson, as part of Chronicle Book’s acclaimed how-to series. Her chapbook, “Bad Girls, Honey [Poems About Lana Del Rey] was the winner of the 2015 Tired Hearts Chapbook Prize. Though Falley cut her teeth as a competitive slam poet and is both a National Poetry Slam and Women of the World Poetry Slam Finalist, she recently began kicking free of the confines of stanza and running wild in the meadows of prose. Since transitioning to memoir, Falley was selected as the first place winner for the So To Speak Creative Nonfiction Prize [2022], the first place winner for the Tom Howard/John H Reid essay prize [2021], and the runner-up for Phoebe Journal’s 50th Anniversary Prize in nonfiction [2021]. Her essays have been shortlisted for The Disquiet International Prize [2021] and the Malahat Review Open Season Awards [2022]. Throughout the pandemic, Falley has taught over seven hundred students online in her virtual workshop, “Poems That Don’t Suck.” She lives in Colorado with the loves of her life. She’s rooting for you.
This program is part of our Thursday Nights @ the Museum series. Join us every Thursday from Sept. 3 until Dec. 10 for concerts, films, and free talks in the Longmont Museum’s Stewart Auditorium.
