New Zealanders will be among the first in the world to see a ground-breaking new political thriller with a gay central character, says the film's director Paul Oremland. Following a chance encounter with a stranger, the film's central character Adam finds himself under the surveillance of powerful unseen forces, who ensure he loses his job as an IT trainer, and who watch his every move. Unbeknown to Adam, the stranger he met in the bar has planted evidence of a homosexual affair with a gay member of the British royal family. Ex-pat New Zealander Oremland says the movie was finished at the end of February this year, and premiered in a film festival in Berlin. After its New Zealand screenings, the director will take his film to festivals in Seattle and San Francisco. Oremland will be available for a question and answer session at the end of the ‘Surveillance' film screening in Auckland tomorrow at 6.30pm. The film with also be screened in Wellington on Sunday 3rd June. Tomorrow's selection of Out Takes screenings in Auckland also includes a ‘Calamity Jane' dress-up screening. Movie-goers are invited to dress-up Wild West-style for the 1953 Doris Day film, and prizes will be awarded to best-dressed. The event begins at 8.30pm at Sky City Cinemas. The Out Takes Film Festival begins in Wellington on the 31st of May, and Christchurch on the 7th of June. The complete schedule of films and events is available on the Out Takes website – follow the link below. Ref: GayNZ.com (m)