Max Currie (director)

Max Currie
Born
Palmerston North, New Zealand
OccupationsDirector, screenwriter

Max Currie is a New Zealand film director and screenwriter, most noted for his 2020 film Rūrangi.[1]

Biography

Currie grew up in Palmerston North, and is the son of a microbiologist and a kindergarten teacher.[2] Currie attended 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][4] His debut film Everything We Loved was released in 2014,[5] garnering him nominations for Best Director and Best Screenplay at the 2014 Rialto Channel New Zealand Film Awards.[6]

Currie directed Rūrangi which began as a web series before being edited into a feature film.[7] 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.[8] The film was made into a TV series which won Best Short-Form Series at the 50th International Emmy Awards in 2022.[9]

In 2021, Currie appeared as a member of the Pit Crew in the first season of RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under.[10] In 2023, he appeared as a special guest in the third season of RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under.[11]

Personal life

Currie is gay.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Celebrating trans experiences: Rurangi director Max Currie". Radio New Zealand, 11 July 2020.
  2. ^ "Max Currie". Big Screen Symposium. Retrieved 5 July 2022.
  3. ^ a b c d "Twelve Questions: Max Currie". The New Zealand Herald. 8 July 2014. Retrieved 5 July 2022.
  4. ^ Screen, NZ On. "Max Currie | NZ On Screen". www.nzonscreen.com. Retrieved 31 August 2025.
  5. ^ Boyd van Hoeij, "Everything We Loved: Berlin Review". The Hollywood Reporter, 24 February 2014.
  6. ^ Baillie, Russell (12 December 2014). "The Dark Horse sweeps NZ film awards". Nzherald.co.nz. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
  7. ^ Graeme Tuckett, "Rūrangi: A Kiwi film to celebrate and enjoy - and one that might just save lives". Stuff, 4 February 2021.
  8. ^ Wiseman, Andreas (8 March 2021). "Hulu Picks Up U.S. Rights To New Zealand Transgender Drama 'Rurangi'". Deadline Hollywood.
  9. ^ "NZ TV series Rūrangi wins award at New York film festival". NZ Herald. Retrieved 31 August 2025.
  10. ^ Jordan Hirst, "What we know about Max and Sean, Drag Race Down Under’s first Pit Crew". QNews, 5 May 2021.
  11. ^ "Snatch Game - Down Under Season 3". WOW Presents Plus, 8 August 2023.


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