Nancy Buirski

Nancy Buirski

Born 06/29/1945
Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Died 08/29/2023 (78 years old)
Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Biography

Director, producer and curator Nancy Buirski is the founder and was the director of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival for ten years. She produced five collections of Full Frame shorts with Docurama and a library collection of feature-length documentaries, The Katrina Experience. She was executive producer of TED's Pangea Day Film Content. Buirski is a producer of Time Piece, the innovative cross-cultural anthology of Turkish and American shorts (directors, Albert Maysles, Alex Gibney, Nathanial Khan, Edet Belzberg and Sam Pollard, among others), Harlem Woodstock (director, Alex Gibney) and Althea (director, Rex Miller). She was directing the documentary Tanaquil Le Clercq: Afternoon of a Faun and was producing a fiction version of the Lovings' story. Prior to her work in film, she was a documentary photographer, writing and photographing Earth Angels: Migrant Children in America, and the foreign picture editor at The New York Times.

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