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Max Currie is a New Zealand film director and screenwriter, most noted for his 2020 film Rūrangi.[1]
Max Currie | |
|---|---|
| Born | Palmerston North, New Zealand |
| Occupation(s) | Director, screenwriter |
Currie grew up in Palmerston North, and is the son of a microbiologist and a kindergarten teacher.[2] Currie moved to Auckland for 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] His debut film Everything We Loved was released in 2014,[4] garnering him nominations for Best Director and Best Screenplay at the 2014 Rialto Channel New Zealand Film Awards.[5]
Rūrangi began as a web series before being edited into a feature film.[6] 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.[7]
In 2021, Currie appeared as a member of the Pit Crew in the first season of RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under.[8] In 2023, he appeared as a special guest in the third season of RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under.[9]
Currie is gay.[3]
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