Gerard Smyth
Filmmaker: 'We need to talk more about Christchurch'
A decade on from Gerard Smyth's When A City Falls comes the sequel, When A City Rises - The People's Story, which screens tonight on TVNZ 1. The award-winning filmmaker joins the show to discuss the… Audio
Marking an awkward anniversary
Major media organisations rolled out lots of commemorative coverage to mark one year since the atrocity in Christchurch. It honoured those who died - and those who survived but have suffered - and… Video, Audio
Gerard Smyth: Christchurch Dilemmas
Nine to Noon speaks with filmmaker Gerard Smyth, who has made a six-part part interactive web series called Christchurch Dilemas, with RNZ as distribution partner. The short documentaries examines six… Audio, Gallery
Once in a lifetime
A new book of essays offers the first substantial critique of the Government's Christchurch Recovery Plan. More than 50 essayists have contributed to Once in a Lifetime: City-building after Disaster… Audio
Aunty and the Star People - Jean Watson and Gerard Smyth
Eighty-year-old writer, Jean Watson is an anonymous elderly woman living in a modest Wellington flat. But in southern India she is revered as the famous 'Jean Aunty'. Thirty years ago she sold her… Audio
'When a City Falls' director praises blueprint for CBD
The man who documented the aftermath of the Canterbury earthquakes with the film 'When A City Falls' says this week's plan for a new Christchurch CBD will forge a new path for the damaged city. Audio
One In Five for 4 December 2011
As the feature length documentary When A City Falls about the Christchurch earthquakes goes on general release in New Zealand, One in Five recalls a programme from earlier in the year when Mike… Audio
Gerard Smyth: Quakes on film
Christchurch filmmaker who has made more than 60 documentaries; his latest is When A City Falls, about the Canterbury quakes. Audio
When a City Falls
'When a City Falls', which has its premiere in Christchurch tonight, looks at what happened to the Christchurch city and its people in the aftermath of the September, February and June quakes. Audio
Spectrum for 3 July 2011
The Volcano Café was damaged beyond repair by a 6.3 Earthquake, in February this year. Owners Lois Ogilvie and Peter Llewellyn Evans remember their 23 years in business along with personality waiter… Audio