Cinéma Vérité: Defining the Moment

  • June 2000
  • 1hr

    45mins

  • Documentary
  • Directed by

    Peter Wintonick,

    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.