followed this in 2015 with By Sidney Lumet, which provides a portrait of the American movie director Sidney Lumet, based on an interview made in 2008 by Daniel Anker. Lumet talks about his films, remembers colleagues, family and friends and looks back at the beginning of his career as an actor in a Jewish theater group. Both films were co-produced by American Masters/PBS. In 2017, Buirski made a documentary entitled The Rape of Recy Taylor about Recy Taylor, an African-American woman from Abbeville in Henry County, Alabama. In 1944, Taylor was kidnapped while leaving church and gang-raped by seven white men. Despite the men's confessions, two grand juries declined to indict them and no charges were ever brought. In 2011, the Alabama Legislature officially apologized on behalf of the state "for its failure to prosecute her attackers." The film was awarded the Human Rights Nights prize at the 74th Venice International Film Festival. Buirski is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Television Academy of Arts and Sciences. In addition to her documentaries, she has produced several collections of Full Frame shorts and a collection of feature-length documentaries. The Katrina Experience brings together a collection of films about Hurricane Katrina, while Time Piece is a cross-cultural collection of Turkish and American shorts. She also produced Althea, a film about the Black tennis player, Althea Gibson. References External links Living people American women photographers American documentary film directors Adelphi University alumni Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women American women documentary filmmakers