When a City Falls

Name: New Zealand Film Commission
Price range: $

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...

New Zealand Production

Feature 2011 Documentary 106.00 minutes

Gerard and Jen film Peter Beck Cathedral

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.