Brian Lair on WNYC, and we end the show today with the next film in our annual series with the makers of the five feature-length documentaries up for an Oscar.

There's plenty of appropriate celebrating of the actors and directors and other artists

who contribute to arts and entertainment films.

But on this show, we spend some time with the documentaries.

Today we're joined by Ryan White, the director and a co-producer of Come See Me in the Good

Light, a film about spoken

word poet Andrea Gibson as they near the end of their fight to survive ovarian cancer.

It's not about their subsequent death last summer at the age of 49, so much as about living,

knowing death is coming.

There's laughter, there's fear, there's grief, and there's more laughter, and poetry.

Here's a bit of that.

At first I thought it was a stomach bug.

But when it started feeling like a stomach anaconda, my doctor convinced me to get a cat scan.

This is the beginning of a nightmare, I thought.

But stay with me all.

Because my story is one about happiness, being easier to find.

Once we realize we do not have forever to find it.

Ryan White, welcome to the show, and congratulations on the Academy Award nomination for Come See Me in the Good Light.

Thank you. Thank you for having me.

Maybe start by telling us a bit about Andrea, who was the poet laureate of Colorado, among other things,

and is described in the film as a rock star of spoken word poetry.

Yeah, I was someone who was pretty unfamiliar with spoken word poetry when I began this film,

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