05 Oct Bold As Love Magazine | REVIEW: “The Rape of Recy Taylor” – New York Film Festival

"There are so many relatively unknown stories that have helped to change the world as we know it. Recy Taylor’s own is one of them."

“What filmmaker Nancy Buirski’s documentary excellently does is further expose a long time truth: that the legacy of physical abuse of Black women by white men, one reaped during American enslavement of Blacks and has not ended, has negatively affected both Black women and men’s everyday functionality.”

05 Oct Filmmaker Magazine | “Women Were Afraid to Speak Up — That’s What Made Recy Taylor So Important”: Director Nancy Buirski on The Rape of Recy Taylor

"What the race films did for me moreso was to create a kind of metaphorical idea that these events happened to many women, not just a few. There was something almost symbolic about the use of them — not to distance you from the event but to enhance the experience and make you feel like there was something almost biblical about the evil that took place there."

29 Sep Black Girl Nerds | Films We’re Excited About At This Year’s New York Film Festival (NYFF)

“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 up in fear for their lives. Not Taylor, who bravely identified her rapists. The NAACP sent its chief investigator Rosa Parks, who rallied support and triggered an unprecedented outcry for justice.”...

29 Sep The Root | The Rape of Recy Taylor Looks Back at a Horrific but Largely Forgotten Case From the Jim Crow South

“To evoke the time period of Taylor’s rape, film director Nancy Buirski uses scenes from early-20th-century “race films.” These films, produced for black audiences with entirely black casts, often included storylines of black women being accosted by white men. 'It’s not a typical documentary approach. You don’t have footage,' said Buirski, who also directed The Loving Story in 2012. “I feel strongly that it is critical for people to be able to take away the feeling of what took place.”

29 Sep Reel News Daily | 10 North American Premieres at the New York Film Festival

“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”

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“This is a potent piece of non-fiction filmmaking, a low-fi look into a culture of violence that saw black bodies assaulted with little to no repercussions.”

29 Sep Women and Hollywood | Nancy Buirski on Exploring Hidden Stories in the Civil Rights Movement in “The Rape of Recy Taylor”

"This is a film about courage and nobility, about standing up for oneself, speaking truth to power, and power verging on evil. It is the story of Recy Taylor, a black woman who accused six white men of rape knowing she’d be putting her life in utter danger."

19 Sep “The Rape of Recy Taylor” wins Special Prize for Human Rights at the 74° Venice Biennale

The Special Prize for Human Rights is conferred at the 74° Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica - La Biennale di Venezia 2017 to the best film that is expression of a culture for the defense of human rights, the protection of civil rights, the valorisation of cultural diversity.Statement from the Jury:"Alabama 1944. The sharpness of a story, that brings us in the deep dark heart of the United States of America. The racism and the violence against women is told by Nancy Buirski, in a documentary that recognizes the strength of a person as Rosa Parks, fundamental for the civil rights, and the courage of Racy Taylor, the African American woman who denounced her rapists."...

12 Sep The Hollywood Reporter | ‘The Rape of Recy Taylor’: Film Review | Venice 2017

“Documentarian Nancy Buirski traces this shameful 1944 incident and the legal fiasco that followed, honoring a woman of color who dared to speak out after being sexually assaulted by a group of white youths.“

“With lucidity and deep feeling, Nancy Buirski's documentary maps an ugly trail of injustice and then widens its lens to pay tribute to the women of color whose refusal to be silent helped drive the evolution of the Civil Rights movement.”

12 Sep Medium | The Rape of Recy Taylor By Indira M. Henard, MSW

“ The Rape of Recy Taylor is more than a documentary about a woman who was raped. This documentary uses the rape of Recy Taylor as a lens to look at how sexual violence and racial injustice are irrevocably linked, and threaded into the moral fabric of this country.”

"The justice that Recy Taylor seeks shows the indomitable spirit of woman who survived the unimaginable, and used her voice to break her silence and lift the veil on the double edge sword of what it means to be black and a woman in this country."