EXCLUSIVE: Singer-songwriter P!NK (Alecia Moore), author and producer Glennon Doyle, and Olympian, author and soccer star Abby Wambach are joining Sara Bareilles: Good Grief as executive producers ahead of the documentary’s world premiere at Tribeca Festival.
The film directed by Josh Alexander documents Grammy winner Bareilles as she’s joined by close friends and fellow musicians to record her first album in seven years, an intimate set of compositions that emerged from a period of profound personal loss and grief.
“What unfolds in front of the camera is the incredibly raw experience of mining one’s own pain to create art,” notes a synopsis, “and the hope that carries an artist forward: that sharing what is broken in oneself might ultimately bring us closer to healing and repair.”
We have your first look at the film in the clip below.
P!NK (left) and Sara Bareilles backstage at the opening night of ‘The Queen of Versailles’ on Broadway on November 9, 2025 in New York City.
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P!NK says she was deeply moved by the documentary. “It is an honor to stand in Sara’s truth and light,” she commented. “I sobbed watching this. It is just raw vulnerability and bravery and connection – collaboration on a soul level with a soundtrack that only Sara could create. I can’t wait for the world to see and hear and feel and experience this.”
Doyle and Wambach served as executive producers on Come See Me in the Good Light, the documentary directed by Ryan White that recently earned an Oscar nomination. Regarding the Sara Bareilles documentary, they said, “This film is about grief, but because of Sara’s indomitable hope, honesty, and wit – every second shimmers with laughter, joy and the magical power of art to heal. Good Grief is an experience of collective catharsis. It made us feel less alone and helped us see grief as a tunnel to love. We are so proud and grateful to help bring this beautiful film to the world.”
Singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles in ‘Sara Bareilles: Good Grief’
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The documentary is produced by Group Effort Films and Naked Edge Films in association with The deNovo Initiative. Josh Alexander and Daniel J. Chalfen are producers. In addition to P!NK, Doyle, and Wambach, the documentary is executive produced by Jim Butterworth, Dawn Bonder, Marci Wiseman, Robyn Grew, Gail Moore, InMaat, Monika Parekh, Trevor Burgess, and James Costa and co-executive produced by Jenn Lee Smith. The film is edited by Amarndo Croda, with cinematography by Jenna Rosher.
Bareilles, who has become internationally known for pop anthems like “Love Song” and “Brave,” is slated to perform after the documentary’s world premiere at the Beacon Theater on Thursday. Additional screenings are set for this Friday, Wednesday, June 10, and Sunday, June 14.
This marks a return visit to Tribeca Festival for director-producer Josh Alexander. His documentary Loudmouth, about the Rev. Al Sharpton, closed the 2022 edition of the festival.
Director Josh Alexander speaks at the 2022 Tribeca Festival on June 19, 2022 in New York City.
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In a director’s statement, Alexander writes he became friends with Bareilles as they lived near each other in New York’s Hudson Valley. “A year ago, when Sara reached out to me to say she was going back into the studio for the first time in seven years to record an entire album of songs she’d written on recent loss and grief and asked if I wanted to film the whole thing, it wasn’t hard to say yes,” Alexander recalls. “But I also told her I wanted all of it; the meals, the walks, the talks, the late nights, the early mornings and the music. It was important to me that this didn’t feel like a music video, or label promotion. I needed full creative control and we’d do it with no talking head interviews, or bio doc breakaways. Just the real thing, as it unfolded.
“I was fortunate that she and this incredible group of musicians and friends that she invited to live on site at Dreamland Recording Studios for a week — Misty Boyce, Butterfly Boucher, Solomon Dorsey, Charley Drayton, Rob Moose and engineer/producer Jon Low — all agreed to participate.”
Alexander continues, “To say that what unfolded was miraculous – in a former church nonetheless – would be an understatement. A group of people gathered together in the spirit of total honesty and presence, making music while working through grief – theirs and Sara’s – and channeling that holy honesty into some of the most tender and heart-soaked songs I’ve ever heard.”
Sara Bareilles: Good Grief is being repped by Josh Braun of Submarine Entertainment for sales out of the festival. The documentary will also screen as the Centerpiece film at DC/DOX on Friday, June 12.
In the clip below, Bareilles and collaborators work on a recording.
