Over the course of his very long career, director Frederick Wiseman has always worked in nonfiction, in the realm of the real, yet his films may best be described as novelistic. Embedding himself in ...

Martin Scorsese stirred up controversy in 2019 by calling Marvel films “theme parks.” He argued that big franchise movies, with the main purpose of entertainment, were different from true cinema, an ...

The closing ceremony was attended by a large number of the cultural officials and artists, including Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Seyyed Abbas Salehi, the Head of the Iranian Cinema ...

While many point to MTV's The Real World as the pioneer of reality television, the real birth of reality TV happened back in 1973, when the Loud family allowed their everyday lives to be chronicled ...

A cinéma vérité documentary portrait of a wise old Haitian midwife and healer who runs a rural health clinic from her modest thatched roof hut near the Jacmel River along Haiti's southern coast.

EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based international sales company mk2 Films has signed a worldwide representation deal, excluding North America and Spain, for the works of late cinema vérité pioneer Jean Rouch.

In a story July 30 about the death of filmmaker Robert Drew, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Drew was shot down in Germany during World War II. He was shot down in Italy. A corrected ...

Richard Leacock, a pioneer of cinema verite documentary filmmaking and direct cinema, died March 23 in Paris. He was 89. Leacock was born in the U.K. but grew up on his father’s banana farm in the ...

Cinema Verite is a delightful film the raises the debate of the validity of reality television. If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive ...