Two Big Documentaries Premiere At Christchurch Film Festival
by The Daily Eye Team July 17 2015, 11:25 am Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 44 secsA Christchurch film festival is about to feature two world premieres on New Zealand’s two biggest stories of the past decade – the Christchurch earthquakes and the Pike River disaster. But the documentaries The Art of Recovery and The Women of Pike River have a different take – one that the authorities won’t like.
Street art that sprang up after Christchurch’s big earthquakes inspired Peter Young’s documentary.
“Being a cameraman, it’s so easy to pick up a camera and film something I find interesting, and that’s what happened with Art of Recovery,” says Young. What began as a few shots here and there evolved into a world premiere on a big topic – the best way for a city to recover from a disaster.