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From Queer Nation to the big screen: Max Currie

Mon 28 Jul 2014 In: Movies View at NDHA

Since being a host on Queer Nation, Max Currie has been a busy screenwriter. Tonight his first feature film, Everything We Loved, will debut on the big screen, at your house – and even on planes! We caught up with the talented gay filmmaker. Remember Max from Queer Nation? He was a host and director of the show, sparking his screen career. “Over the course of eighty episodes, the then 21-year-old left no aspect of human sexuality unexplored,” as his bio puts it. Since then, he’s lived in New York working as a bartender while a film and video arts intern, and worked as a screenwriter for Palme d'Or winning producer Bill Robinson. In 2008 he was awarded the jury prize for best film in The Huffington Post Contagious Film Festival for his short film protesting Proposition 8: Some Of My Best Friends Are American. Back home in New Zealand he’s written for Shortland Street and Step Dave, but now his feature film – which already has great reviews and award nominations – is about to debut. Currie directs the film's leading lady, Sia Trokenheim. It won’t be an ordinary New Zealand premiere. Everything We Loved will be on big screens in Wellington and Auckland as part of the New Zealand International Film Festival. It will also be released on demand so people can watch it from home, and join a live Q  

Credit: Jacqui Stanford

First published: Monday, 28th July 2014 - 9:58am

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