Christchurch: wrestling with the truth in filmed fact and factual fiction

ScreenHub's policy specialist Dr O'Donnell has another life on radio, working between Australia and New Zealand as a roving correspondent. Wanting to explore the screen productions responding to the C
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ScreenHub’s policy specialist Dr O’Donnell has another life on radio, working between Australia and New Zealand as a roving correspondent. Wanting to explore the screen productions responding to the Christchurch earthquake, he went there…

Christchurch City, in Canterbury, New Zealand, is no longer. It resides in memory alone.

In its place: fields of masonry stubble and some, mostly older, buildings of remarkable fortitude. Then there are the people of Christchurch: more fortitude still.

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Dr Vincent O`Donnell
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Dr Vincent O`Donnell is a historian who produces `Arts Alive`, the national arts and culture current affairs radio program, an honorary fellow of RMIT University School of Media & Communication, and the University of Melbourne`s School of Historical and Philosophical Studies.