Nancy Buirski

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Nancy Buirski at the 2013 Peabody Awards

Nancy Florence Buirski (born June 24, 1945 ) is an American photographer , documentary filmmaker and curator .

Life

Nancy Buirski was born in 1945 to Helen Housten Cohen and Daniel S. Cohen from Atlantis , Florida . She grew up in New York City , Manhattan .

Her studies at Adelphi University she graduated magna cum laude from. Until the mid-1990s, Buirski worked as a photographer and picture editor in the international department of the New York Times . Her selection of a photo taken by Kevin Carter showing a half-starved Sudanese child with a vulture earned the paper the first Pulitzer Prize for feature photo reporting in 1994 . In 1994 the photo book Earth Angels: Migrant Children in America, curated by her, was published by Pomegranate Press.

In 1998 she founded the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University in Durham , North Carolina , which she directed for 10 years.

After reading an obituary for Mildred Loving in the New York Times in 2008, she acquired the rights to a biography of the Lovings. It was on this basis that her first documentary film, The Loving Story , followed the decision of the United States Supreme Court in the Loving v. Virginia dedicated that in 1967 repealed a Virginia law that previously prohibited so-called "multiracial" marriages between white and non-white partners. The film premiered at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and was later shown at numerous other festivals. It won an award at the 2012 Peabody Awards and was also shortlisted for an Oscar for Best Documentary . He has received numerous other prizes. Director Jeff Nichols later used her documentation as a model for the feature film Loving (2016), for which Buirski acted as producer.

Buirski's second documentary Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq (2013) tells the story of the French prima ballerina Tanaquil Le Clercq , who contracted polio in 1956 and remained paralyzed from the waist down for the rest of her life.

In By Sidney Lumet (2015), she showed an intimate portrait of filmmaker Sidney Lumet based on a 2008 interview. Lumet tells of his films, remembers colleagues, family and friends and looks back on the beginning of his career as an actor in a Jewish theater company.

In 2017, based on Danielle L. McGuire's non-fiction book At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape and Resistance - A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power, the documentary The Rape of Recy Taylor was made about the African American Recy Taylor , kidnapped in 1944 and raped by six white men. Although the men soon admitted the crime, no charges were brought.

Buirski is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Television Academy of Arts and Sciences .

She has been married to the architect Kenneth Friedlein for the second time since 1996.

Filmography (selection)

Director
  • 2011: The Loving Story
  • 2013: Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq
  • 2015: By Sidney Lumet
  • 2017: The Rape of Recy Taylor (Documentary)

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Web links

Commons : Nancy Buirski  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Nancy Buirski, Kenneth Friedlein . In: nytimes.com of December 22, 1996.
  2. ↑ Paid Notice: Deaths Cohen, Daniel S. In: nytimes.com, September 25, 1997.
  3. ↑ Laura Berger: Nancy Buirski on Exploring Hidden Stories in the Civil Rights Movement in "The Rape of Recy Taylor" . In: womenandhollywood.com from September 29, 2017.
  4. ↑ a b Nancy Buirski: Director, Producer, Writer . In: afternoonofafaun.com, accessed June 12, 2019.
  5. ↑ a b Nancy Buirski: Director, Producer, Writer . In: therapeofrecytaylor.com, accessed June 12, 2019.
  6. ↑ Nancy Buirski podcast & Transcript . In: arts.gov, accessed June 12, 2019.
  7. ^ The Loving Story . In: peabodyawards.com, accessed June 12, 2019.
  8. ↑ Nikki Finke: OSCARS: 15 Documentary Features Rise . In: deadline.com of November 18, 2011.
  9. ↑ Peter Debruge: Cannes Film Review: 'Loving' at variety.com from May 16, 2016.
  10. ↑ Tre'vell Anderson: Director Nancy Buirski on the lessons of 'The Rape of Recy Taylor' and the courage it takes to speak out . In: latimes.com of December 9, 2017.
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SURNAME Buirski, Nancy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buirski, Nancy Florence (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American photographer, documentary filmmaker and curator
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1945