Desc: Cinéma Vérité: Defining the Moment: Directed by Peter Wintonick. With Jean-Pierre Beauviala, Michel Brault, Gillian Caldwell, Robin Cowie. This is a documentary about direct-cinema from its very beginnings (Nanook of the North) to the fake-direct-cinema of the Blair Witch Project. All the important direct-cinema filmmakers are portrayed and/or interviewed: Leacock, Wiseman, Maysles, Pennebaker, Reisz and others.