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ChristopherBanks

  • Director
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Christopher Banks has worked in journalism, music, and film. In the 90s he wrote and produced songs for chart-topping band Deep Obsession, before reinventing himself as a journalist, directing and reporting for TV's Queer Nation. In 2005 he wrote and directed feature comedy Quiet Night In, the tale of a writer whose night descends into disaster. Banks followed it with a series of award-winning shorts, which have been invited to gay and lesbian festivals in both New Zealand and North America. In 2012 he completed feature-length documentary Men Like Us, based on interviews exploring the lives of nine gay men.

Screenography

Men Like Us
2012 Director, Producer, Editor Film
The Colonel's Outing
2011 Writer, Director, Editor Short film
Communication
2010 Writer, Director, Editor Short film
Teddy
2009 Composer, Writer, Director, Editor Short film
2004 Writer, Director, Presenter Television

Awards

2010 Q-bliss Creating Change Community Awards (US gay and lesbian media awards)
Winner Outstanding Short Film: Communication

2010 Fort Worth International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
Best Dramatic Short: Communication

2009 Out Takes (New Zealand gay and lesbian film festival)
Audience Award for Best Narrative Short: Teddy

2009 Friends of the Civic Film Award (Auckland)
for Teddy

“I only let them out at weekends, making sure they wore electronic anklets so I could keep tabs on them. They were a shifty lot.”

Christopher Banks on the cast of his first film Quiet Night In