Focus Features’ Girls Like Girls is a new film based on the Hayley Kiyoko’s hit single and best-selling novel of the same name. The feature was directed by the artist and includes all-new music.
Girls Like Girls is set in a small Oregon town in the summer of 2006, where Coley (Maya da Costa) has moved to live with her estranged father Curtis (Zach Braff). While biking down the town’s backroads, she stops off at the Cherry Pit, where she encounters the charismatic Sonya (Myra Molloy), her boyfriend Trenton (Levon Hawke) and their friend group. While content to observe from a distance, Coley is pulled into their world, and flirtation blossoms between the new girl and the popular girl.
The film was released in US theaters on June 19th and features an original score by LA-based composer Jessica Rose Weiss. Weiss and Kiyoko also collaborated to co-write the film‘s original song “Falling Through.”
Weiss (pictured) is an alumna of the Universal/DreamWorks Composers Initiative and a member of the Alliance for Women Film Composers. Her credits include Cinderella, which earned her a BMI Award, Canary Black, No Hard Feelings, American Horror Stories and The Kill Room. Here, she shares details on her most recent project.