Max Currie is a New Zealand writer‑director who crafts stories that burn with longing, contradiction, and unspoken truths.

From Emmy‑winning Rūrangi to the queer crime-comedy-drama Bust Up (due 2026), his work lives in friction—where beauty coexists with boundary. He follows the heat of ideas that culture tries to obscure or hide, and builds rooms and collaborations where honesty, tenderness, and challenge coexist. 

 

But because life is strange and people are multifaceted, he's probably best known for being PitCrew on RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under — a delicious detour for a filmmaker who knows the line between awe and absurdity is always a little tucked.

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Desire as direction.  Kindness in the heat.  Built on contradiction.

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