Max Currie (director)
Max Currie is a New Zealand film director and screenwriter, most noted for his 2020 film ''Rūrangi''. Biography Currie grew up in Palmerston North, and is the son of a microbiologist and a kindergarten teacher. Currie moved to Auckland for university, and later spent a year in Germany, working as a chef in an Australian-themed restaurant. 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. Currie was formerly a reporter and presenter for the documentary television series ''Queer Nation'', and a writer for the soap opera ''Shortland Street''. His debut film '' Everything We Loved'' was released in 2014, garnering him nominations for Best Director and Best Screenplay at the 2014 Rialto Channel New Zealand Film Awards. ''Rūrangi'' began as a web series before being edited into a feature film. The film premiered at the New Zealand International Film Festival in 2020, and won the award for Best Feature at the 2 ...
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Palmerston North
Palmerston North (; mi, Te Papa-i-Oea, known colloquially as Palmy) is a city in the North Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Manawatū-Whanganui region. Located in the eastern Manawatu Plains, the city is near the north bank of the Manawatu River, from the river's mouth, and from the end of the Manawatu Gorge, about north of the capital, Wellington. Palmerston North is the country's eighth-largest urban area, with an urban population of The official limits of the city take in rural areas to the south, north-east, north-west and west of the main urban area, extending to the Tararua Ranges; including the town of Ashhurst at the mouth of the Manawatu Gorge, the villages of Bunnythorpe and Longburn in the north and west respectively. The city covers a land area of . The city's location was once little more than a clearing in a forest and occupied by small communities of Māori, who called it ''Papa-i-Oea'', believed to mean "How beautiful it is". In the mid-1 ...
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