52 Films by Women Vol 10. 39. GIRLS LIKE GIRLS (Director: Hayley Kiyoko)
Pictured : Teenagers Coley ( Maya Da Costa , left) and Sonya ( Myra Malloy , right) explore the Oregon countryside and their own feelings for each other, in the teen romance, ' Girls Like Girls ', co-written (with Stefanie Scott ) and directed by Hayley Kiyoko . Still courtesy of Focus Features / Universal Girls Like Girls is not the first song to be turned into a movie – Girls Just Want To Have Fun , inspired by Cyndi Lauper’s 1983 hit single and starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Helen Hunt and Shannon Doherty, was released in 1985. However, it is the first to be done so by its singer, in this case biracial American Hayley Kiyoko, by way of her novel published in 2023. It is an example of a piece of intellectual property squeezed almost to its limit by its author. A musical, stage show, TV spin off, perhaps even a video game, all remain options for the artist who first released the song in 2015 and saw it become a queer anthem, the video for which attracted 100 million view...