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

Producer

Paul Swadel

Executive Producer

Tiki Tane

Original Music Composer

Aaaron Tokonoa

Original Music Composer

Ben Edwards

Sound Effects Editor

Michael Hedges

Sound Mixer

Gilbert Lake

Sound Mixer

Chris Sinclair

Supervising Sound Editor

Clare Brody

Data Wrangler

Jeannie Yeung

Data Wrangler

Ben Edwards

Music Director

Nadia Reid

Musician

Tiki Taane

Musician

Aaron Tokona

Musician

Rhys Brookbanks

Researcher

Cate Broughton

Researcher

Jennifer Dutton

Production Assistant

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