Biography
Nancy Florence Buirski (née Cohen; June 24, 1945 – August 29, 2023; New York City) was an American documentary filmmaker, producer, photographer and a founder of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. She wrote, directed, and produced the documentary films A Crime on the Bayou (2020) and Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy (2022). In 1998 Buirski founded the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, in collaboration with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke Univers...
Complete Filmography
Gunfighter Paradise
2024
Executive Producer
A camouflaged man returns to the rural family home as the fabric of his reality disintegrates. Guided by the voice of God and stocked up with ammuniti...
Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy
2023
Director, Producer, Writer
This is not a documentary about the making of Midnight Cowboy. It is about a humane and groundbreaking masterpiece and the flawed but gifted people wh...
A Crime on the Bayou
2021
Director, Producer, Writer
A Crime on the Bayou is the story of Gary Duncan, a Black teenager from Plaquemines Parish, a swampy strip of land south of New Orleans. In 1966, Dunc...
The Rape of Recy Taylor
2019
Director, Writer
Recy Taylor, a 24-year-old black mother and sharecropper, was gang raped by six white boys in 1944 Alabama. Common in Jim Crow South, few women spoke ...
Loving
2016
Storyboard, Producer
The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, whose challenge of their anti-miscegenation arrest for their marriage in Virginia led ...
By Sidney Lumet
2015
Director, Producer, Writer
An analysis of director Sidney Lumet's work (12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon, Before The Devil Knows You're Dead) in his own words, based on a five-da...
Althea
2014
Producer
Althea Gibson’s life and achievements transcend sports. A truant from the rough streets of Harlem, Althea emerged as a most unlikely queen of the high...
Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq
2014
Director, Writer, Producer
Of all the great ballerinas, Tanaquil Le Clercq may have been the most transcendent. With a body unlike any before hers, she mesmerized viewers and ch...
Private Violence
2014
Consulting Producer
One in four women experience violence in their homes. Have you ever asked, “Why doesn't she just leave?” Private Violence shatters the brutality of ou...
The Loving Story
2011
Producer, Director, Screenplay
This documentary film tells the dramatic story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple living in Virginia in the 1950s, and their landmar...
Time Piece
2006
Producer
Twelve filmmakers, six from Turkey and six from the United States, come together to take part in this omnibus film. Some approaches literal, others mo...
Sweet Dreams
2006
Producer
Over three years, Sweet Dreams tells the story of two Italian-American men. One of them, Gary "Tiger" Balletto is a 27-year-old boxer, who, burdened b...