‘Girl Like You’ set to premiere on ABC this Sunday 7 November
A debut feature documentary that follows the extraordinary love story of a couple faced with the question ‘Could your love transcend gender?’
Screenwest is pleased to announce that Western Australian feature documentary, Girl Like You, is set to make its television premiere on ABC TV Plus on Sunday 7 November at 9.30pm.
Directed by WA filmmakers, Frances Elliott & Samantha Marlowe (The Beeman) and produced by Cody Greenwood (Under the Volcano), Girl Like You is a compelling LGBTQIA+ love story that explores uncharted relationship waters as it follows the life of a Perth couple who find themselves confronted with the arrival of extraordinary circumstances.
Set to the eclectic backdrop of the Fremantle arts scene, the documentary follows the lives of Lauren and Lewis – an Australian middle-class couple living a typical early 20s existence. Six months into their relationship, Lewis tells Lauren that he wants to medically transition genders, change pronouns from He to She, and become Elle. Over the next six years, we watch a couple desperate to stay together, as they navigate the effects of new body parts, changing gender roles as well as battling their own evolving sexual identities.
“Girl Like You started as an idea in 2015 for a short documentary with a question shared between us: What was it like to be born in the wrong body? Over the next 6 years this would evolve into a feature length documentary that became about so much more than the intricacies of a gender transition. Our film lays bare the complexities of love and of the lengths that we will go to to find it; for ourselves and one another. Bringing Elle and Lauren’s story into the social consciousness has allowed us to explore the untouched subjects of love in a transgender world, in the hope of dissolving misconceptions and normalising LGBTQIA+ stories on screen.” said Frances Elliott & Samantha Marlowe, Directors.
“Girl Like You has been a labour of love for everyone involved in its production over the last 6 years. Working alongside Frances and Samantha to navigate the largely uncharted territory of transgender love has been an honour, and the support from Screenwest and Screen Australia has allowed us to share the diverse and compelling stories the world needs more of.” said Cody Greenwood, Producer, RUSH Films.
Following its world premiere at the 2021 CinefestOZ Film Festival earlier this year, the documentary has also been selected to make its international premiere at Raindance Film Festival in the UK on 2 November 2021 and will screen at the Curzon Soho in London as a part of the Queer strand of the festival.
Girl Like You will screen on ABC TV Plus at 9.30pm on Sunday 7 November and again on Tuesday 9 November. It will also be available on ABC iview.
Girl Like You is a RUSH Films production. Principal production funding from Screen Australia in association with Screenwest and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
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