Film
In 2005, Banks wrote, produced and directed a low-budget digital feature, Quiet Night In, in which his former pop collaborator Nicolette Kenny played the lead role.
It screened as the closing night film at the inaugural 2005 Stratford-upon-Avon International Digital Film Festival in England, and was released on DVD in New Zealand by Arkles Entertainment in October 2007, and in Australia by Gryphon in March 2009.
His second film, Teddy, was completed in 2009 and has screened at some of the world's largest gay film festivals, including Toronto, New York, Boston and San Francisco. Teddy won the Audience Award for Best Short at the Out Takes: A Reel Queer Film Festival in New Zealand, and became the first short film from New Zealand to be shortlisted for the Iris Prize, a gay short film competition in the United Kingdom.
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