Controversial Australian film Gayby Baby has expanded its theatrical season due to popular demand.
The film will launch at Palace Electric in Canberra and Palace Centro in Brisbane and will add a second screen in Melbourne at The Sun Theatre in Yarraville from 17 September.
The Sydney season will also expand with a second screen at the Randwick Ritz from 22 September.
The film has already grossed $58,868 in just one week on three screens only, plus a number of one-off cinema event screenings around the country.
The film first launched and continues to screen at Cinema Nova in Melbourne and at Dendy Newtown in Sydney on September 3, with special filmmaker Q and A screenings and TUGG/cinema on demand screenings across the country.
Despite being banned from screening in NSW schools, the film has just been nominated for an Australian Teachers of Media (ATOM) Award.
Recently nominated for an AACTA and AWGIE Award, it had its world premiere earlier this year at Hot Docs International Documentary Festival.
The film, directed by Maya Newell and produced by Charlotte Mars, has also been selected to screen in competition at several upcoming international film festivals, including the London Film Festival, with others to be announced shortly.
The film addresses the marriage equality issue from the unique perspective of the children of same-sex partners.
The film introduces audiences to four Australian kids – Gus, Ebony, Matt and Graham – whose parents all happen to be gay.
As they each wrestle with the challenges of oncoming adolescence, the outside world wrestles with the issue of marriage equality, and whether or not kids like them are at risk.
Gayby Baby was one of seven outstanding Australian documentary films chosen for the inaugural Good Pitch2 Australia program.
Good Pitch brings together documentary filmmakers with foundations, not-for-profits, campaigners, philanthropists, policymakers, broadcasters and key players in the film industry, around leading social and environmental issues, to forge coalitions and campaigns that are good for all these partners, good for the films and good for society.