WHEN A CITY FALLS

Year: 2011
Reference: F217010
Media type: Moving image

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Year: 2011
Reference: F217010
Media type: Moving image

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Place of production: New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories: Feature
Duration: 01:56:00
Production company: Frank Film
Credits: Writer: Gerard Smyth
Director: Gerard Smyth
Producer: Alice Shannon
Producer: Gerard Smyth
Cinematography: Jacob Bryant
Cinematography: Gerard Smyth
Research: Rhys Brookbanks
Research: Cate Broughton
Research: Jennifer Dutton
Research: Brent Fraser
Research: Jo Malcom
Sound Editor: Chris Sinclair
Sound Design: Ben Edwards
Sound Design: Chris Sinclair
Creative Consultant: Alun Bollinger
Executive Producer: Paul Swadel
Music Director: Ben Edwards
Original Soundtrack: Tiki Taane
Original Soundtrack: Arron Tokona
Original Soundtrack: Te Taonga Puoro
Original Soundtrack: Richard Nunns
Made With Funding From: Neil Graham
Made With Funding From: Mwa Productions
Made With Funding From: Civil Defence
Made With Funding From: New Zealand Film Commission
Made With Funding From: NZ On Air

When a City Falls is Gerard Smyth's feature length documentary of the Christchurch earthquakes, and the stories of the community it devastated.

Filmed on the hoof without narration, When a City Falls offers a grass roots understanding of what happened to half a million New Zealanders the year their lives changed forever.

When a City Falls began as a project by Gerard Smyth to document the damage done to Christchurch by the September 2010 earthquake, and the subsequent recovery efforts in the months that followed. In February 2011 when the devastating magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck, killing 185 people and demolishing the majority of the city, Smyth's project became an important documentation of a community turned upside down.