"Even though the documentary Tig Notaro produced won the Festival Favorite Award at Sundance, she did not spend the festival hobnobbing with industry types. Instead she stayed holed up at the Airbnb she rented with friends and the film's crew. "We were calling it Snuggle Down because we were all sitting around the fire and having tea and just laughing so hard." Among the people at Snuggle Down was the subject of the documentary, poet Andrea Gibson, who was dying of ovarian cancer."
"In this episode, Tig describes meeting Andrea, what made them click creatively, and how making a documentary about the end of Andrea's life brought an already tight-knit group of friends closer together. And we also want to acknowledge the passing of disability activist Alice Wong. She died on Friday in San Francisco at age 51. Alice and Anna first talked in 2020."
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The documentary Tig Notaro produced won the Festival Favorite Award at Sundance. Tig stayed holed up at an Airbnb she rented with friends and the film's crew instead of socializing, calling the gathering Snuggle Down as they sat around the fire, drank tea, and laughed. The subject of the film, poet Andrea Gibson, was dying of ovarian cancer. Making a documentary about the end of Andrea's life strengthened an already tight-knit group of friends and captured how Tig and Andrea clicked creatively. Disability activist Alice Wong died in San Francisco at age 51; Alice and Anna first talked in 2020.
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