A young Wellington film-maker hopes his latest work, to be screened at the Out Takes festival this year, will spread the safe-sex message. Andy Boreham is the writer/director of One Night, a short film supported by the New Zealand AIDS Foundation that will screen before many of the main features at Out Takes this year. It follows Damien, a young gay man, through a random hook-up at a bar and afterward as he goes for his first HIV test. "I pitched the idea to The New Zealand AIDS Foundation at the start of the year," says Boreham. "I felt it was important that they take advantage of a large, captured audience - ie: the moviegoer. They used to screen short videos on the opening nights of Out Takes and I thought, 'why don't they have one on 35mm that can screen before practically all of their 35mm features and on opening night?' They liked the idea, I wrote a script and they gave me the go-ahead." Acting talent from within the GLBT community were used. "We wanted to keep this real, so we used real people from the real community. Silipa Take from NZAF's Awhina Centre in Wellington plays himself. Brayden Croft plays Damien, and Rob Arnold plays his random hook-up." One Night is part of Boreham's move towards more sober subjects for his films, following the screening of his short parody The Drag Bitch Project at Out Takes in 2001. His next project, to be shot on film, is another short about a gay man that inherits a houseboat from the estate of his estranged father, who had disowned him after he came out. Shooting will take place in Picton towards the end of this year.