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Maya Newell
Australian filmmaker
Maya Newell is an Australian filmmaker, known for the feature-length documentariesGayby Baby (2015) and In My Blood It Runs (2019).
She works at Closer Productions in Adelaide, South Australia.[1]
Newell had intended to study international relations or medicine, but at the age of 17 won a scholarship to attend Sydney Film School for a year.[2]
Career
Newell made several documentary short films before her feature-length films.[1] While still a student at the film school, she made a documentary called Richard (2007), about a passionate toymaker with whom she made friends while filming.
After he killed himself during the making of the film, she wrestled with the ethics of completing the film, but decided ultimately that it was a way of helping to invoke empathy.[2]
Gayby Baby observes the lives of four children whose parents are homosexual, examining the ways in which the sexual identity of the