Nancy buirski biography

American documentary filmmaker and producer (1945–2023)

Nancy Florence Buirski (néeCohen; June 24, 1945 – August 29, 2023) was an American filmmaker, producer, and photographer.

She wrote, directed, and produced the documentary films A Crime on the Bayou (2020) and Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy (2022).^{[citation needed]}

Life

Buirski was born in Manhattan to Helen Housten Cohen and Daniel S.

Cohen on June 24, 1945.^[1] She grew up in New Rochelle, NY. She graduated from Adelphi University in Garden City, New York with magna cum laude. Until the mid-1990s, Buirski worked as a photographer and picture editor in the international department of The New York Times.^[2] In 1994, her image selection of a photo taken by Kevin Carter, which showed a half-starved Sudanese child, resulted in the newspaper winning its first Pulitzer Prize for feature photo reporting.

In the same year, her book Earth Angels