Max Currie (director)
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Max Currie | |
|---|---|
| Born | Palmerston North, New Zealand |
| Occupations | Director, screenwriter |
Max Currie is a New Zealand film director and screenwriter, most noted for his 2020 film Rūrangi.[1]
Currie grew up in Palmerston North, and is the son of a microbiologist and a kindergarten teacher.[2] Currie attended university, and later spent a year in Germany, working as a chef in an Australian-themed restaurant.[3] He moved to New York City as the spouse of a diplomat, and worked as a bartender at a gay bar on the Lower East Side.[3]
Currie was formerly a reporter and presenter for the documentary television series Queer Nation, and a writer for the soap opera Shortland Street.[3][4] His debut film Everything We Loved was released in 2014,[5] garnering him nominations for Best Director and Best Screenplay at the 2014 Rialto Channel New Zealand Film Awards.[6]
Currie directed Rūrangi which began as a web series before being edited into a feature film.[7] The film premiered at the New Zealand International Film Festival in 2020, and won the award for Best Feature at the 2020 Frameline Film Festival.[8] The film was made into a TV series which won Best Short-Form Series at the 50th International Emmy Awards in 2022.[9]
In 2021, Currie appeared as a member of the Pit Crew in the first season of RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under.[10] In 2023, he appeared as a special guest in the third season of RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under.[11]
