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Cinema Vérité - Direct Cinema

Definition: French, meaning "film truth." A term applied to documentary films in which there is a truthful live encounter between the filmmaker who is shooting the film and the film's subject(s).

Also Known As: Film Truth, Direct Cinema

Examples:

In order to get their cinema vérité footage of polar bears and walruses, the directors of Arctic Tale traveled to the North Pole.


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