Overview
- The documentary Sara Bareilles: Good Grief premiered at Tribeca with a screening at New York’s Beacon Theatre and follows the concentrated studio sessions that produced her first solo album in seven years.
- Director Josh Alexander filmed Bareilles and a small group of collaborators working live at Dreamland, showing the creative process behind the new record.
- In the film Bareilles says she and her husband have been trying to have a child for two years and that she has undergone IVF multiple times.
- Bareilles discusses considering an egg donor and describes grieving the possibility that a child born this way “won't be mine,” making fertility a central emotional theme of the film.
- The Good Grief album is scheduled for release in late August and the project marks a coordinated comeback that pairs the record with the documentary screening and planned tour activity.