Indigo Girls: It's Only Life After All

Directed By Alexandria Bombach

Known for stirring harmonies and socially conscious lyrics, iconic folk rock duo Indigo Girls are the subject of this intimate and insightful documentary, which tracks their decades-long career.

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With forty years of making music as the iconic folk-rock band Indigo Girls, Amy Ray and Emily Saliers have made their mark as musicians, songwriters, and dedicated activists. They have represented radical self-acceptance to many, leading multiple generations of fans to say, “the Indigo Girls saved my life.” Still, Amy and Emily battled misogyny, homophobia, and a harsh cultural climate chastising them for not fitting into a female pop star mold. With joy, humor, and heart-warming earnestness, Sundance award-winning director Alexandria Bombach brings us into a contemporary conversation with Amy and Emily—alongside decades of the band’s home movies and intimate present-day verité.

Alexandria Bombach (they/them) is an award-winning director, producer, cinematographer, editor, and story consultant known for character-driven documentaries that capture human stories with empathy and depth. Their latest film, It’s Only Life After All, opened the 2023 Sundance Film Festival with an intimate portrait of the Indigo Girls’ forty years of music, friendship, and activism.

Bombach’s debut feature, Frame by Frame (2015), about Afghan photojournalists, premiered at SXSW and went on to win over 25 festival awards. Their 2018 documentary, On Her Shoulders, following Yazidi activist Nadia Murad, premiered at Sundance, where Bombach received the U.S. Documentary Directing Award. The film was shortlisted for the Academy Award, nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards, and recognized with both the Ridenhour Documentary Film Prize and a duPont-Columbia Award.

Most recently, Bombach served as Executive Producer and Editor of There Was, There Was Not (2024), directed by Emily Mkrtichian, which chronicles the lives of four women in Artsakh amid war and displacement.

 Alongside developing their next feature, Bombach frequently collaborates as a story consultant, working with new and seasoned filmmakers to shape narratives with clarity and integrity. They currently reside in the high desert of their hometown of Santa Fe, New Mexico where they serve on the advisory board of the Santa Fe International Film Festival.