Cinéma Vérité: Defining the Moment
- Movies
- 2000-06-09
- EN
- Released
- 2h 45m
- CA
- Documentary
Production
ONF | NFB
Storyline
A documentary about direct-cinema from its very beginnings (Nanook of the North) to the fake-direct-cinema of the Blair Witch Project. All the important direct-cinema filmmakers are portrayed and/or interviewed: Leacock, Wiseman, Maysles, Pennebaker, Reisz and others.
