About
Winner of Best Documentary at the 2012 NZ Film and TV Awards, this docudrama mixes interviews, archival footage and drama to depict a tragic gas explosion at the Strongman coal mine. Nineteen miners died at the West Coast site in January 1967. Thanks to the quick actions of fellow workers most of the bodies were retrieved the same day. In this short excerpt, survivors of the tragedy and their family members discuss the lead-up to the incident, intercut with a recreation of the day in 1967. First-time director Paula McTaggart's uncle Ronnie Gibb was the first rescuer to enter the mine after the explosion.
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Paula McTaggart
Director - Documentary
