Award-winning filmmaker Nancy Buirski has her next project lined up. The director of “The Loving Story” and “By Sidney Lumet” will helm “The Rape of Recy Taylor,” described as an “epic story of sexual violence in Jim Crow South.”
Taylor was gang raped in Abbeville, Alabama by seven white men in 1944. She spoke up against her rapists, a decision that put her life — as well as the lives of her family members — in danger. Her story was noticed by NAACP, and namely their chief investigator, civil rights activist Rosa Parks.
The doc, which is in talks with HBO Documentary Films, will be produced by Buirski’s company Augusta Films and Beth Hubbard (“Christmas in Compton”). It will be produced in association with independent production company Transform Films.
“When Nancy brought the idea to us it stopped us in our tracks,” commented Nick Stuart, head of Transform Films. “The story she had and the access she has will make this documentary a powerful contribution to the race debate America has to have.”
“By Sidney Lumet” made its world premiere at Cannes 2015 and screened at the Tribeca Film Festival last week. The film is a portrait of the late Sidney Lumet, an iconic filmmaker whose credits included “Network” and “12 Angry Men.”
[via Press materials]
[via Press materials]
