When A City Falls - Special Anniversary Screening

We present on the Tenth Anniversary of the September 10th 2010 Christchurch Earthquake a screening of Gerard Smyth's feature length documentary of the stories of the community it devastated. Smyth's acclaimed documentary about the Christchurch earthquakes is the story of people coping — for better or worse — with the huge physical and emotional toll that the quakes, and continuing aftershocks, inflicted on them, their homes and their city. It began as a home movie while the devastation of September was surveyed (with thanks given that no-one had been killed); but, as shooting of the recovery continued, the February quake compounded the destruction and claimed 182 lives (including their researcher and 16 colleagues at CTV).