Sara Bareilles 'Good Grief' Doc Gets First Trailer
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- IndieWire exclusively premiered the first trailer for "Sara Bareilles: Good Grief," a documentary following the songwriter during recording of her seventh studio album, also titled "Good Grief," due August 28.
- Director Josh Alexander filmed Bareilles with "close friends working on her first new album in 7 years," calling the experience "nourishing and life-changing" in a statement.
- Bareilles describes the album as "about loss, and transition, and change, and what we let go of," with the film exploring the inspiration behind a friend's 2019 lung cancer diagnosis.
- Group Effort Films and Naked Edge Films, in association with The deNovo Institute, produced the documentary; Alexander and Daniel J. Chalfen serve as producers.
- Executive producers include P!nk, Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, Jim Butterworth, Dawn Bonder, Marci Wiseman, Robyn Grew, Gail Moore, Chandra Jessee, Rebecca Lichtenfeld, Trevor Burgess, James Costa, and Monika Parekh.
- mTuckman Media will release the film in theaters nationwide on September 2, following its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival in June.
- Bareilles, a two-time Grammy winner known for her 2007 hit "Love Song," the musical "Waitress," and the series "Girls5eva," has sold over three million albums across her career.
Why it matters: IndieWire's exclusive trailer drop lands ahead of Bareilles' first album in seven years, with mTuckman Media opening the film theatrically on September 2 — five days after the album's August 28 release — turning a deeply personal project about grief into a coordinated visual-and-audio release. With executive producers P!nk, Glennon Doyle, and Abby Wambach attached, the documentary carries enough star wattage to draw audiences beyond Bareilles' existing fanbase.
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