Director whose debut feature film on children of homosexual parents became the subject of frenzied media debate says the episode was bruising,but ultimately valuable It has been a big year for Australian film director Maya Newell. Her doco Gayby Baby examined the lives of four children aged 11 or 12 raised by homosexual parents, premiering at the Hot Docs festival in Canada before pinballing its way around the world’s film festivals. In August it landed on the cover of the Daily Telegraph in a sensational news splash and a spell of mostly manufactured outrage.
We had messages from parents with kids who'd never been bullied before and were being treated really terribly at schoolContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com