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EXCLUSIVE: Nancy Buirski, director of feature doc Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy, which just premiered at the Venice Film Festival, has signed a development deal with Cineflix Productions. It comes after Buirski teamed with the production company on the doc, which explores the complex…

Though you might think Midnight Cowboy's main claim to fame is one of the most famous improvised lines in screen history ("I'm walkin' here!"), Nancy Buirski’s fascinating and really quite hypnotic documentary will introduce more thoughts and perspectives on a truly underrated Hollywood milestone. Directed by John…

EXCLUSIVE: Shout! Studios has acquired worldwide rights to Emmy-winning director Nancy Buirski's documentary A Crime on the Bayou, the third in her trilogy of films that explore vital stories from the Civil Rights era. Shout! Studios, the distribution and production arm of Shout! Factory, plans a theatrical release…

Nancy Buirski’s documentary The Rape of Recy Taylor premiered its first trailer today to paint a tragic picture of the titular Taylor and her story that rings true to today’s treatment of women — black women in particular. The Orchard announced today that they have acquired the digital right to the film which bowed at…

EXCLUSIVE: Nancy Buirski, the director of By Sidney Lumet and The Loving Story, is headed to the Venice Film Festival with her latest project, The Rape Of Recy Taylor. The documentary about a woman who defied the times to stand up against the physical abuse of black women in the 1940s south, is running in the Horizons…

Nancy Buirski, the director of the Cannes documentary By Sidney Lumet and The Loving Story, which aired on HBO and became the basis for Jeff Nichols’ Cannes-bound pic Loving, has found her next project. She will direct and produce The Rape Of Recy Taylor, the true story of a 24-year-old wife and mother who was gang…