When a City Falls

Synopsis

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....

Main Cast

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Production	Researcher	Rhys Brookbanks Cate Broughton
	Executive Producer	Paul Swadel
	Producer	Gerard Smyth Alice Shannon
	Production Assistant	Jennifer Dutton
Camera	Data Wrangler	Joyce Kamille Cristal Clare Brody Jeannie Yeung
	Director of Photography	Gerard Smyth
Crew	Thanks	Daniel Story
Sound	Musician	Nadia Reid Aaron Tokona Richard Nunns Tiki Taane
	Original Music Composer	Tiki Tane Aaaron Tokonoa
	Music Director	Ben Edwards
	Sound Mixer	Michael Hedges Gilbert Lake
	Sound Effects Editor	Ben Edwards
	Supervising Sound Editor	Chris Sinclair
Writing	Writer	Gerard Smyth
Editing	Editor	Ken Sparks Richard Lord
Directing	Director	Gerard Smyth
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