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Gayby Baby is a 2015 Australian documentary film directed by Maya Newell that follows four children raised by same-sex parents. SAGE Publications. Showing all 8 company credits. This copy is for your personal non-commercial use only. Discussion: Recently, documentary film-making and academic research has seen the emergence of a new value system that measures success in terms of 'impact' in the public sphere. A still from documentary film Gayby Baby WHO would have thought that a simple documentary, which was made using crowd funding, would cause so much controversy. Housing crunch is the bane of the LGBT community: Teitel, New Ontario act ensures same-sex parents don’t have to adopt their own kids, The Universal Family project showcases modern family life. By Bree Rody-Mantha. Supergravity and Heard Well partner on Gayby Baby The documentary film will see a brief theatrical run in 50 cities before heading to VOD on May 1, in time for International Family Equality Day. Toronto Star articles, please go to: www.TorontoStarReprints.com, The Toronto Star and thestar.com, each property of Toronto Star presentation-ready copies of Toronto Star content for distribution To order copies of Process: In 2011, Maya Newell and Charlotte Mars began to develop an observational feature documentary Gayby Baby (2015) focused on same-sex families, for the first time revealing the child's perspective on debates concerning Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex, Queer and their children's equality.
To be like the apple of every lesbian mother’s eye,” she says. She chose to address the topic of LGBT parenting from an observational perspective without entering the political debate around the issue, so that the film "addresses people's questions about that, but in a very non-political way because we're just watching this kid's life". Republication or distribution of this content is Much of our conversation on same-sex families focuses on the grown-ups, and it’s easy to see why. The idea for the film originated from a short documentary, Growing Up Gayby, filmed by Newell for ABC2 in 2013. “We were kind of the normalizing generation,” says Toronto’s Sadie Epstein-Fine, 25, of her upbringing as the daughter of two moms during the beginning of the gayby boom. Synopsis Gayby Baby observes the lives of four children—Gus, Ebony, Matt and Graham—whose parents are either gay or lesbian, and explores the ways in which growing up as a "gayby" has affected them. “In some ways it’s a bit of a bridge between queer and straight world views, because we were raised a certain way but we may not be that way ourselves, and we see the world from a very unique perspective.”. 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. “I had a really amazing childhood in terms of my family life,” she says. Gayby Baby follows four children from different sex-same couples, offering an intimate account of the kids and their families. Jump to: Distributors (5) | Other Companies (3) Distributors ... Ryan Bruce Levey Film Distribution and PR Services (2016) (USA) (theatrical) Other Companies. “I wouldn’t trade it for anything, even though sometimes the homophobia of society made me feel like, ‘why can’t I just be normal?’, “It’s society’s problem. March 16, 2016. Yet Epstein-Fine — whose moms were both active in the LGBTQ parent community and a natural first phone call for reporters who wrote about same-sex families — couldn’t help but sense that a whole lot of people were invested in her turning out OK. “That’s definitely a big part of how I came of age, trying to be perfect and putting a lot of pressure on myself to be a really great kid and not get in trouble. In 2014, Gayby Baby secured $180,000 in outreach support; earlier this year two other Good Pitch-assisted films reached cinemas: anti-CSG doco Frackman and … The families featured in the film were cast from around Australia; the filmmakers considered 30–40 children before selecting four 11–12-year-olds and their families. Obviously it’s got nothing to do with the sexuality of our parents, and we shouldn’t be made to feel like it’s a reflection of that.”. A subsequent report in The Daily Telegraph said parents had complained to the school, the Education Department and to the Minister for Education, Adrian Piccoli, who directed all public schools in NSW not to show the film during class time, and told Macquarie Radio, "schools are not places for political issues to be aired".
rights reserved. “I didn’t really come out about my family until I was about 15.”, But her hesitation to share her story at school had little reflection on her experience at home. Naturally much of our dialogue about their families is centred around access to marriage, to reproductive technologies and to adoption. Gayby Baby observes the lives of four children—Gus, Ebony, Matt and Graham—whose parents are either gay or lesbian, and explores the ways in which growing up as a "gayby" has affected them. Mark Powell, a Presbyterian minister who gives seminars on Christianity at the school, told supporters he would organise to have the film banned and to contact as many media outlets as possible. We’re in a so-called gayby boom, but we don’t often hear from these kids, including the adult children who were part of the first generation to be raised by parents who were out.
Gayby Baby was produced over three and a half years. “Normal in a family actually means imperfections,” Newell says. . Process: In 2011, Maya Newell and Charlotte Mars began to develop an observational feature documentary Gayby Baby (2015) focused on same-sex families, for the first time revealing the child's perspective on debates concerning Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, … We’re not perfect and that’s OK.”. “And I was like, ‘Hey wait! Distribution . That’s the often-overlooked perspective explored in the documentary Gayby Baby, which airs on TVO Saturday, June 24 at 8 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. as part of the broadcaster’s Pride Month programming. 1 on iTunes doc charts during it’s UK release. A screening was planned during class time at Burwood Girls High School on 28 August 2015. It was conceived and directed by Maya Newell, who was raised by lesbian mothers and felt that, in the same-sex marriage debate in the Australian media, "no one was actually talking to any kids". We’ve grown up and we have something to say.’ ”, Newell says she believes her peers offer an interesting new voice in the world.
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“Now I’m sure kids in elementary school feel like they have more kids who are raised by queer parents around them. Both she and Epstein-Fine, who met Newell through the film’s international debut at the Hot Docs festival, say Gayby Baby is unique both in its exploration of the kids’ point of view, and because it was created by someone who herself has same-sex parents.