Cinéma Vérité: Defining the Moment - DVD
Catalogue Number: NFB521648
Producer: National Film Board Of Canada
Producers: Adam Symansky, Éric Michel, Kirwan Cox, Sally Bochner
Directors: Peter Wintonick
Producing Agencies: National Film Board of Canada (Montreal), Office national du film du Canada (Montreal)
Subject: Arts, Canadian Social Studies, Documentary, Education, History, Media and Communications, Social Studies, Tech/Voc
Language: English
Grade Level: Post Secondary
Country Of Origin: Canada
Copyright Year: 1999
Running Time: 142:45
Closed Captions: Yes
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Crisis, Lonely Boy, Chronicle of a Summer. You may not know these films, but you see their influences every day--in everything from TV news to music videos to Webcams. The cinéma vérité (or direct cinema) movement of the '50s and '60s was driven by a group of rebel filmmakers tired of stilted documentaries. They wanted to show life as it really is: raw, gritty, dramatic. Rich in excerpts from vérité classics, Cinéma Vérité: Defining the Moment is the first film to capture all the excitement of a revolution that changed movie-making forever. Director Peter Wintonick's Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media is one of the bestselling documentaries of all time; co-producer Éric Michel won the Cannes Palme d'or for 50 ans, by director Gilles Carle, and co-producer Adam Symansky won an Oscar for Flamenco at 5:15.