Atlanta, GA (The Hollywood Times)Â 9/11/26 – Some of the most memorable creative projects begin in moments that were never intended for an audience.
For Jennifer Corday, Find Another Girl to Fix began with one of those moments: a candid phone conversation between friends. What started as heartbreak, frustration and a little venting ultimately became a funny, colorful and deeply personal five-minute music video that is now headed to Atlanta as an official selection of Out On Film 2026.
I recently sat down on Zoom with Corday, who wrote, directed and stars in the project, along with The Hollywood Times Senior Editor Valerie Milano, who serves as co-producer. What began as a conversation about making a music video quickly became something bigger: a discussion about friendship, relationships, queer creativity, women supporting women and the unexpected ways personal experiences can become art.
The inspiration came during a difficult period in Milano’s relationship. She called Corday and began talking about the frustration of feeling as though someone constantly wanted to change or “fix” her.
Corday happened to be recording.
Instead of recreating the conversation later, Corday kept Milano’s original words. That authentic audio now opens the video, immediately giving the polished, playful production a surprisingly vulnerable beginning.
For Corday, the idea behind the conversation felt universal. Women, queer or straight, understand what it is like to find themselves in relationships where one person is constantly trying to improve, control or redesign the other. Corday admitted she has experienced both sides of that equation: being the person trying to do the fixing and being the person somebody else wanted to fix.
That honesty gives the humor some weight.
For Milano, hearing such a private conversation transformed into a song and music video initially brought some hesitation. Did she really want something that personal shared with strangers?
Eventually, she found the experience surprisingly therapeutic.
Once a painful experience becomes something creative, colorful and funny, it can lose some of its hold on you. And, as Milano joked, if heartbreak gives you a good music video, at least you got something out of it.
There is another twist to the story. The relationship that helped inspire the song has since reconciled, adding another unexpected chapter to a project born from uncertainty.
Find Another Girl to Fix was filmed at Casa Milano, Milano’s mid-century home in Palm Springs’ historic Old Las Palmas neighborhood.
The home, swimming pool and unmistakable desert light create the retro backdrop that gives the video much of its personality. A rented 1966 Cadillac helps complete the visual fantasy.
Corday paid close attention to maintaining the period feel, even keeping contemporary cell phones out of the frame. Drone photography and carefully composed shots give the project a cinematic polish far beyond what audiences might expect from a five-minute music video produced on a remarkably modest budget.
Milano had another reaction after seeing the final cut.
Her house looked pretty damn good.
She was right.
Fashion also plays a major role in the video’s personality. Corday leaned into the mid-century Palm Springs setting with plaid suits, multiple costume changes and pieces from designer Trina Turk. During our Zoom conversation, both Corday and Milano wore Trina Turk pieces connected with the production, extending a little of that Palm Springs style beyond the screen.
Cathy DeBuono plays the wonderfully controlling “fixer,” and her statuesque presence provides a perfect visual contrast with Corday. The two have known each other for years, and Corday has previously contributed music to projects featuring DeBuono.
Their chemistry allows the comedy to work without losing the emotional truth beneath it.
One of the most notable elements of Find Another Girl to Fix is the team responsible for bringing it to life.
Corday assembled an all-female cast and crew.
Rachael “Rae” Hastings-Adair served as director of photography. Lissa Forehan joined the project as co-producer, with Michele Amrhein, Marci Rosenblum and Nacia Schreiner also part of the production team. Schreiner additionally worked as a camera operator.
The cinematography connection came through filmmaker Betsy Kalin. Milano had previously interviewed Kalin and reached out while the production was searching for the right cinematographer.
Many of the extras were Milano’s Palm Springs friends, which lends the party scenes an authenticity that is difficult to manufacture. The women gathered around the living room and pool do not appear to be pretending they are having a good time for the camera.
They look like they really are.
Milano’s official credit may read co-producer, but her job description during filming was apparently considerably broader.
She laughed while remembering the controlled chaos unfolding throughout her home: move this piece of furniture, put somebody in that room, shift people over there, figure out where everyone belongs and, apparently, surrender the bed if production needed it.
The project was filmed in roughly two to three days on a budget of approximately $1,500.
Considering the costumes, vintage Cadillac, location work, drone footage, cinematography and overall finish of the video, that figure is almost difficult to believe.
For Milano, the experience also represented a reversal of roles.
After years of covering filmmakers, actors, festivals and entertainment projects for The Hollywood Times, she suddenly found herself inside the story. Her voice, home, friends and a very personal part of her life became ingredients in someone else’s creative work.
What makes Find Another Girl to Fix especially enjoyable is that Corday never allows the emotional subject matter to become heavy-handed.
The heartbreak is there.
So is the frustration.
But Corday chooses humor.
The song is catchy, the costumes are playful, the visuals are colorful and the message will be familiar to plenty of people who have ever tried to make a relationship work.
Underneath the camp is a lesson most of us eventually encounter: relationships require compromise and growth, but loving someone is different from constantly trying to redesign them.
Corday makes that point without delivering a lecture.
She gives the audience Palm Springs sunshine, fabulous clothes, women behaving badly and a wink.
Sometimes you accept the person standing in front of you.
And if you absolutely cannot resist fixing somebody?
Well, maybe you need to find another girl to fix.
Now the project continues its festival journey with its selection by Out On Film in Atlanta, one of the country’s longstanding showcases of LGBTQ+ cinema.
For a project created by queer women, centered around queer relationships and powered by an all-female filmmaking team, bringing Find Another Girl to Fix before another LGBTQ+ festival audience feels particularly fitting.
The video has also been selected for Cinema Diverse in Palm Springs and the Simi Valley Music Video Fest, expanding what began as a private conversation between two friends into a project being shared with audiences in multiple cities.
That journey may be the most satisfying part of the story.
A friend listened while another friend was hurting.
A songwriter heard something universal inside the conversation.
A group of women gathered together and transformed it into music, comedy and film.
And now audiences in Atlanta get to join the conversation.
The Hollywood Times is proud to spotlight projects reflecting LGBTQ+ lives through different voices, styles and experiences. Find Another Girl to Fix fits beautifully into that mission.
It is campy, colorful, stylish and very funny.
But underneath all that Palm Springs fabulousness is something sincere.
Heartbreak became friendship.
Friendship became a song.
And the song became art.
Editor’s Note: Valerie Milano is Senior Editor of The Hollywood Times and co-producer of Find Another Girl to Fix.
