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4 unusual facts about Cinéma vérité


Cinema of Uruguay

Mario Handler's Carlos: Portrait of a Montevideo Panhandler represented a local form of Cinéma Vérité that drew on Uruguayan film makers' tradition as documentarians.

Cinéma Vérité

The band Lucky Boys Confusion performed a cover of the same song on their EP How to Get Out Alive.

Cinéma Vérité is the debut album by the alternative rock group Dramarama, released in November 1985.

Sync sound

It was called Direct Cinema and was the basis for a "New Wave" of Cinéma Vérité films, especially in Europe, made by filmmakers who abandoned the studio and went out on location to film, often with hand-held cameras.


A Day in the Death of Donny B

A Day in the Death of Donny B is a 1969 American short docudrama written and directed by Carl Fick and shot in cinéma-vérité style.

Climb Dance

Climb Dance is a famous cinéma vérité short film, which features Finnish rally driver Ari Vatanen setting a record time in a highly modified four-wheel drive, all-wheel steering Peugeot 405 Turbo 16 GR at the 1988 Pikes Peak International Hillclimb in Colorado, USA.

Ron Rocco

Later he began graduate study at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at M.I.T. under the instruction of the German Group Zero artist, Otto Piene, filmmaker Ricky Leacock, and anthropologist Heather Lechtman.

Thought Moments

Thought Moments (2004) is an anthropological short film in the style of cinéma vérité by Michael Simon Toon.

Werckmeister Harmonies

Film critic Roger Ebert described the film as "unique and original", and it "feels as much like cinema verite as the works of Frederick Wiseman."


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Glorianna Davenport

A graduate of Mount Holyoke College in 1966, Davenport made documentary films in New York and Maine before becoming a lecturer at M.I.T's Film Section directed by cinema verite pioneer Richard Leacock in 1977.

Mooncusser Films

Notable projects include cinema verité films with alterna-folk musician Suzanne Vega, the late illustrator Edward Gorey, and one upcoming portrait of legendary filmmaker Albert Maysles.

Moumen Smihi

Smihi has cited the cinéma vérité pioneer Jean Rouch and Henri Langlois of the Cinémathèque Française, whom he met at the Francophone Film Festival, as being among those who imparted to him a sense of the magic of movies.