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ABOUT MEN LIKE US
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'Men Like Us' was conceived as a response to decades of local and international research showing that gay men are at higher risk for depression and suicide. Through the lens of a feature-length documentary and the pages of an interview-based book, the 9 men featured in 'Men Like Us' open up about their lives, their difficult times and how they got through them in the hope that other men will take strength from their stories. |
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The director - Christopher Banks |
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‘Men
Like Us’ is the fifth film from New Zealand
writer/director Christopher Banks, his second
feature, and his first documentary. A film-maker, journalist and songwriter, his first film was the camp feature-length comedy ‘Quiet Night In’. His next three films were the multiple award-winning gay shorts ‘Teddy’, ‘Communication’, and ‘The Colonel's Outing’, the latter of which told the story of two World War II veterans who find love in a rest home under the eye of an interfering Matron. He started writing for gay media in 2003 as the senior writer for New Zealand's leading gay news and entertainment website GayNZ.com, was an occasional contributor to London's Gay Times magazine, and wrote, directed and presented stories for the award-winning TV2 show ‘Queer Nation’. He now writes regularly for New Zealand's national gay newspaper Express, US website The Good Men Project and Canadian website PositiveLite. His daily blog, ‘Bipolar Bear’, chronicles his personal experience as a gay man who lives with a mental illness, including depression, anxiety and bipolar disorder. In the late 1990s, Banks wrote and produced a string of top 40 hits in New Zealand, including three consecutive number ones for a pop group which he founded, ‘Deep Obsession’. It was the first time a local group had ever achieved such a feat, and the subsequent album was certified platinum and went on to be released internationally. Born in Auckland, New Zealand, Banks now lives in Melbourne, Australia. He is very fond of Orson Welles, Woody Allen, Stanley Kubrick, the boardgame Cluedo, and the classic British sitcom ‘Are You Being Served?’. |
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