A drama set in post-earthquake Christchurch by filmmaker Gaylene Preston has been chosen to screen at the Vancouver International Film Festival.
Hope and Wire will air at the festival on October 5 and 6, followed later in the month by a screening at the Vancouver Film Centre.
Festival artistic director Alan Franey said the production was an "unprecedented and truly extraordinary" screen event.
"Utilising a mix of dramatic staging, found footage and documentary elements, it captures a complex and extraordinary situation vividly and humanely."
Preston said Hope and Wire was conceived as a "postcard from Christchurch to Auckland to illuminate the grinding and ongoing psychological and social disruption in the wake of a huge upheaval".