Max Currie is a

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film director and screenwriter, most noted for his 2020 film ''

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''.

Biography

Currie grew up in

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, and is the son of a microbiologist and a kindergarten teacher. Currie moved to Auckland for university, and later spent a year in

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, working as a chef in an Australian-themed restaurant. He moved to

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as the spouse of a diplomat, and worked as a bartender at a gay bar on the

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. Currie was formerly a reporter and presenter for the documentary television series ''Queer Nation'', and a writer for the soap opera ''

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''. His debut film '' Everything We Loved'' was released in 2014, garnering him nominations for Best Director and Best Screenplay at the 2014 Rialto Channel New Zealand Film Awards. ''Rūrangi'' began as a web series before being edited into a feature film. The film premiered at the

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in 2020, and won the award for Best Feature at the 2020

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. In 2021, Currie appeared as a member of the Pit Crew in the first season of ''

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''. In 2023, he appeared as a special guest in the third season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under''."Snatch Game - Down Under Season 3"
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'', 8 August 2023.

Personal life

Currie is gay.

References

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