When a City Falls
106 mins
2010 on the Canterbury Plains and all is well. Lambs, blue skies and daffodils. In Cathedral Square choir boys sing to their God. Punts push new season's tourists along the Avon. They photograph the 'Garden city'; the 'most English city outside of England'. We get hit with a 7.1 earthquake. We stand up, wave our fists at the heavens and compliment ourselves on our ability to recover. And then we get hit even harder. Now the city has fallen. Many are dead. Many injured. Many narrowly escape. A fragile people reappear in the following days. We have learnt from the first earthquake and once again a response is growing. Once again adrenaline is taking over. Now the whole country is rallying for Christchurch. It's the energy of the people that's unprecedented. Communities are rising from the sand. People are holding tight to each other. A year later and the quakes keep rolling. Now the Canterbury earthquakes are the most ever quakes recorded in a series. And we're still counting....
Gerard Smyth
Director
Gerard Smyth
Director of Photography
Gerard Smyth
Writer
Alice Shannon
Producer
Gerard Smyth
Producer
Paul Swadel
Executive Producer
Tiki Tane
Original Music Composer
Aaaron Tokonoa
Original Music Composer
Richard Lord
Editor
Ken Sparks
Editor
Ben Edwards
Sound Effects Editor
Michael Hedges
Sound Mixer
Gilbert Lake
Sound Mixer
Chris Sinclair
Supervising Sound Editor
Clare Brody
Data Wrangler
Joyce Kamille Cristal
Data Wrangler
Jeannie Yeung
Data Wrangler
Ben Edwards
Music Director
Richard Nunns
Musician
Nadia Reid
Musician
Tiki Taane
Musician
Aaron Tokona
Musician
Rhys Brookbanks
Researcher
Cate Broughton
Researcher
Jennifer Dutton
Production Assistant
Daniel Story
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