It premiered at Tribeca Film Festival in April 2014 and on HBO in December 2014.

Interviewees include Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer, writers Terry Castle, Wayne Koestenbaum, Stephen Koch and Fran Lebowitz, and Sontag's sister Judith Sontag Cohen.

Actress Patricia Clarkson voices Sontag's journals and writings.

[2] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 79 out of 100, based on 4 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

[3] Stephen Holden of The New York Times called the film "compelling" and "perceptive".