"‘Gayby Baby’ Documentary About Kids of Gay Parents Gets Theatrical, Digital Release"
- Variety
“Possibly the most endearing
– New Matilda
and entertaining hour and a half
of family life ever put to film"
"‘Gayby Baby’ Documentary About Kids of Gay Parents Gets Theatrical, Digital Release"
- Variety
"Taking a compelling look at what it’s like to grow up with same-sex parents"
- The Huffington Post
"Maya Newell on 2015 and Gayby Baby: 'We learned some things need to get ugly for change'"
- The Guardian
"The best LGBT movies of 2015"
- Dazed
"Offers a fresh viewpoint (on) LGBT parenting."
- OUT in NYC
"An important documentary and milestone achievement."
- Film Ink
"A wonderful film."
- Hollywood News
"Honest and moving."
- Indiewire
"Provides a powerful look inside the lives of those most impacted by the ongoing fight for international marriage equality."
- Vogue.com
(On the Gayby Baby government 'ban') "What else is human rights but a plea for our common humanity, the diversity of which is rendered fearful and threatening whenever we don't watch, we don't hear, we don't listen to the stories of others."
- Shen Narayanasamy, Daily Life
"One of the first movies to sell out its sessions, (SFF Festival Director, Nashen) Moodley describes the film as both powerful and moving, and has yet to show it to an audience that hasn’t been left emotional by the film’s end.”
– The Reel Word
"(Gayby Baby is) possibly the most endearing and entertaining hour and a half of mundane Australian family life ever put to film.”
– New Matilda
“The Truth behind the Gayby Baby ban.”
– The Age
(On censorship of the film in schools) "School should be a safe space for everyone to develop and learn. No ifs. No buts.”
– Tim Wilson, Australian Human Rights Commissioner
“I’d encourage (those who have made complaints about the film) to turn down the outrage and watch it. They might learn something from these kids about respect, love and tolerance.”
– Australian Senator Penny Wong
“The statewide ban on Gayby Baby is depressing, but if kids at other schools are as astute as these Burwood Girls, we have the future to look forward to.”
– The Age
"People can make assumptions and throw statistics at you, and they can say all these things about you, but in the end no knows your family but you."
– Ebony in "Gaybies: In Their Own Words" for i-D Magazine
“Hopefully some of our leaders are pushed towards watching the film and hearing the perspectives – that would be pretty wonderful.”
– Maya Newell
“I applaud Newell’s decision to not make a film about how different gay and lesbian parents are from heterosexual ones.”
– Cinefiles
“A family not bound by gender stereotypes or biology has more freedom to self-define.”
– POV Magazine
“Compelling”
– The Guardian
✮✮✮✮ “Gayby Baby looks beyond the windy generalisations exciting the same-sex marriage debate to give us a series of snapshots from the lives of four kids with same-sex parents”
– Sydney Morning Herald
“Gayby is destined to succeed as a social conscience film of this very moment in political time, and as a strong contemporary piece of documentary filmmaking in and of itself.”
– Junkee
"A delightful, meaningful, profound and politically relevant film that deserves plaudits for encompassing the simple beauties of modern family life."
– BFI London
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