THE RAPE OF RECY TAYLOR
Filmfest 2018
USA 2017
Original version with English subtitles
(Original: English)
German Premiere
Director: Nancy Buirski
Section: International Independents
In the American South, "separate but equal" was the doctrine that legitimized segregating people of different races while supposedly giving them equal rights. Recy Taylor, who was raped by six white men in Alabama in 1944, was one of many people who experienced the legal system as it really was. She pressed charges against her accusers, which was rare for the time, but the case never went to court. Using interviews and archive material, Nancy Buirski examines a historical case that brings to mind in every shot the extent to which hate and inequality have not been overcome.
With: Robert Corbitt, Alma Daniels, Crystal Feimster, Esther Cooper Jackson, James Johnson ll
Credits
Screenplay: Nancy Buirski
Original Material: Danielle L. McGuire
Director of Photography: Rex Miller
Film Editor: Anthony Ripoli
Composer: Randall Poster
Sound: Tony Volante
Producer: Nancy Buirski, Beth Hubbard
Co-Producer: Claire L. Chandler, Susan Margolin
Production Company: Augusta Films
World Sales: Wide House
Director: Nancy Buirski
biography
Producer and director Nancy Buirski is founder and former head of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. She is best known for her documentary films, including AFTERNOON OF A FAUN: TANAQUIL LE CLERCQ (2013) and THE LOVING STORY (2012), about Richard and Mildred Loving, whose court case in the 1960s led to the overturning of a law forbidding interracial marriages. Buirski was producer of LOVING (2016), the feature-film version of the story.
