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Rūrangi
''Rūrangi'' is a 2020 New Zealand LGBT-related independent drama film directed by Max Currie. The queer and trans-positive drama was written by Cole Meyers and Oliver Page. It stars Elz Carrad in his feature film debut, along with Arlo Green, Kirk Torrance, Awhina-Rose Ashby, Aroha Rawson, Renee Sheridan and Ramon Te Wake. The film had its world premiere at the New Zealand International Film Festival on 26 July 2020. It was screened at the Frameline Film Festival in San Francisco, where it won an Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature, and was released to New Zealand theatres on 4 February 2021. All of the trans characters in the film are portrayed by trans actors. The project was initially released as a five-part web series, which was edited into a feature film for international release. Synopsis Caz Davis left his home in the small town of Rūrangi, abandoning everyone, and moved to Auckland to start his new life where he transitions. Years later, he returns to the town w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tweedie Waititi
Tweedie Waititi is a New Zealand film director and producer. The whāngai sister of Taika Waititi, she is best known for her work co-directing production company Matewa Media, which since 2016 has produced Māori language versions of Disney animated films. Biography Waititi grew up in the Te Whānau-ā-Apanui community of Waihau Bay in the Bay of Plenty. She is the first cousin of Taika Waititi, but as they were raised together through whāngai adoption, they consider each other siblings. Waititi studied film at the South Seas Film & Television School. In 2012, she worked as a language coach for the Rachel House-directed production of William Shakespeare's ''Troilus and Cressida'', performed in Māori. In 2017, Waititi formed the production company Matewa Media alongside filmmaker (and then wife of her cousin Taika Waititi) Chelsea Winstanley. The company was named for Waititi's grandmother Matewa Delamere (1926-1998). Waititi and Winstanley were inspired to create Te Reo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirk Torrance
Kirk Torrance is an actor and playwright from New Zealand, best known for his role as Wayne Judd in '' Outrageous Fortune''. He is also a former Commonwealth Games swimmer. Career His debut play ''Strata'' (2003) won Best New Playwright at the Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards. He played the lead role of ''Holden'' in the New Zealand movie '' Stickmen'' (2001) and award-winning television drama ''Fish Skin Suit'' (2003). While appearing on ''Outrageous Fortune'', he hosted one series of a New Zealand version of ''The Real Hustle''. He was nominated Best Supporting Actor at the Qantas Film & Television Awards 2008 for his ex-cop role in the television series ''Outrageous Fortune''. Profile & Screenography, NZ On Screen. Retrieved 9 November 2009] In 2008, he was named Sexiest Man in Auckland by '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramon Te Wake
Ramon Te Wake (born 25 March 1976) is a New Zealand trans woman documentarian, singer-songwriter and television presenter. Her first presenting job was for Māori Television, where she was one of three people fronting '' Takatāpui'', which is Maori Television's first ever LGBT show. Early life Te Wake was born in Dargaville to Māori parents Ray and Tilly Te Wake."The Making of Ramon" documentary film She is the decentdant of Heremia Te Wake who was a notable tribe leader, who is the father of respected kuia ( |
Pit Crew (RuPaul's Drag Race)
The Pit Crew is the ensemble of scantily clad male models who appear on camera for various segments of the American television series ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' and its derivatives, utilizing the motif of car drag racing. During season 6 of ''Drag Race'', and on ''Drag Race Thailand,'' the group are known as the Scruff Pit Crew. The group are called the Brit Crew on ''RuPaul's Drag Race UK''. A behind-the-scenes weekly web series ''Oh Pit Crew'' launched in 2014 with season six and airs on WOW Presents Plus, and its related YouTube channel. Function Crew members often appear dressed only in designer underwear, and features as human props, and in sketches, mini-, and maxi-challenges to aid the drag queen contestants. In one mini-challenge called "Pants Down Bottoms Up", the competing drag queens picked Pit Crew men by two to drop their pants until they found matching underwear. Members ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' (2009–present) Pit Crew members of the first season of ''RuPaul's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
QNews
''QNews'' is an Australian online news outlet based in Brisbane, Queensland catering to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer communities in Australia. The first issue was published in December 2000. History ''QNews'' was formed in December 2000 following the demise of predecessor publication ''Brother Sister'' amidst the collapse of national LGBT publisher Satellite Media. The first edition of ''QNews'' was released on 15 December that year. It was operated by Ray Mackereth, who had previously run ''Brother Sister'' for Satellite Media. A fortnightly publication from the beginning, it was originally printed as a tabloid newspaper, but changed to a fortnightly magazine in 2005. Historian Shirleene Robinson described ''QNews'' as being less "highbrow" than its then-rival publication, ''Queensland Pride''. In 2013, under earlier ownership, ''The Australian ''The Australian'', with its Saturday edition, ''The Weekend Australian'', is a broadsheet news ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival
London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for two millennia. The City of London, its ancient core and financial centre, was founded by the Romans as ''Londinium'' and retains its medieval boundaries.See also: Independent city § National capitals The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has for centuries hosted the national government and parliament. Since the 19th century, the name "London" has also referred to the metropolis around this core, historically split between the counties of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Kent, and Hertfordshire, which largely comprises Greater London, governed by the Greater London Authority.The Greater London Authority consists of the Mayor of London and the London Assembly. The London Mayor is distinguished fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
