Talking Pictures: The Rape of Recy Taylor (Director Interview w/Nancy Buirski)

Talking Pictures: Director Interview, The Rape of Recy Taylor

Host Paul Booth interviews direcor Nancy Buriski (By Sindey Lumet) about he new film being released in L.A. and N.Y.C.

Recy 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 Recy Taylor, who bravely identified her rapists. The NAACP sent its chief rapeinvestigator Rosa Parks, who rallied support and triggered an unprecedented outcry for justice.                                            

Our film exposes a legacy of physical abuse of black women and reveals Rosa Parks’ intimate role in Recy Taylor’s story. An attempted rape against Parks was but one inspiration for her ongoing fight for justice for countless women like Taylor. The 1955 bus boycott was an end result, not a beginning.

Theatrical opening:

December 8th - LA (Laemmle Santa Monica)

December 15th- NY (IFC Center)