Sara Bareilles 'Good Grief' Doc Trailer Debuts on IndieWire
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- IndieWire exclusively debuted the first trailer for "Sara Bareilles: Good Grief," a documentary directed by Josh Alexander chronicling the singer-songwriter's recording of her seventh studio album.
- Bareilles' new album "Good Grief," set for release on August 28, explores "loss, and transition, and change, and what we let go of," with inspiration drawn in part from a friend's 2019 lung cancer diagnosis.
- The film had its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival in June and will open in theaters nationwide on September 2 via mTuckman Media, produced by Group Effort Films and Naked Edge Films in association with The deNovo Institute.
- Bareilles, a two-time Grammy winner best known for her 2007 hit "Love Song," has sold over three million albums across her career and also wrote the music for the hit musical "Waitress."
- Executive producers include P!nk, Glennon Doyle, and Abby Wambach alongside Jim Butterworth, Dawn Bonder, and several others.
- Director Alexander called the filming week "nourishing and life-changing," while Bareilles described the resulting film as "my most vulnerable and personal project to date."
Why it matters: For Bareilles fans and documentary audiences, the Tribeca premiere to theatrical pipeline positions "Good Grief" as a prestige release timed to her album drop and likely fall tour — a rare convergence where a recording-session doc doubles as a companion piece to deeply personal music rooted in a friend's cancer diagnosis.
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