11 Sep Variety | Toronto Film Festival: 12 Hot Titles Likely to Spark Bidding Wars

"This incendiary documentary gives a genuine American hero the recognition she deserves."

11 Sep Deadline | ‘The Rape Of Recy Taylor’: First-Look At Nancy Buirski’s New Doc – Venice

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. 

"This is the true story of a 24-year-old wife and mother who was gang raped in Alabama by six white men in 1944. The doc highlights the black women who waged war to take back their bodies and their dignity, and by speaking up helped inspire the civil rights movement that was to come."

11 Sep IndieWire | 20 Female Directors Who Will Rule This Fall Festival Season, Including Agnes Varda, Greta Gerwig, Dee Rees, and More

From TIFF to NYFF to Venice, here are 20 female filmmakers set to bow exciting new work during the starriest of festival seasons.

11 Sep Deadline | New York Film Festival Sets Documentary Lineup

"Nancy Buirski’s passionate documentary shines a light on a case that became a turning point in the early Civil Rights Movement, and on the many formidable women—including Rosa Parks—who brought the movement to life."