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Cinema Verite: Defining the Moment (1486 words) |
 | Cinema Vérité: Defining the Moment is a comment on such historical documentary debates over time, including the more recent revolutionary development of new technologies and the wider changes in film language. |
 | Cinema Vérité is a sumptuous feast of old fl and white vérité footage from some of the masters working in observational filmmaking. |
 | Cinema Vérité is testimony to the evolution of documentary, having superseded the preaching, polemic and educational mode. |
| French Realism & Cinema Verite (975 words) |
 | Cinema verite films are usually shot with light, easily portable, inexpensive equipment, hand-held cameras, actual locations, real people (not actors) and a relatively small budget. |
 | Cinema verite is part of the broader artistic tradition of realism and the cinematic tradition of documentary film making. |
 | Realism and cinema verite try to show man as he is and the world as it is because the film maker often has a social conscience and sometimes a political agenda. |