"There are so many relatively unknown stories that have helped to change the world as we know it. Recy Taylor’s own is one of them."

“What filmmaker Nancy Buirski’s documentary excellently does is further expose a long time truth: that the legacy of physical abuse of Black women by white men, one reaped during American enslavement of Blacks and has not ended, has negatively affected both Black women and men’s everyday functionality.”

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"What the race films did for me moreso was to create a kind of metaphorical idea that these events happened to many women, not just a few. There was something almost symbolic about the use of them — not to distance you from the event but to enhance the experience and make you feel like there was something almost biblical about the evil that took place there."

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“To evoke the time period of Taylor’s rape, film director Nancy Buirski uses scenes from early-20th-century “race films.” These films, produced for black audiences with entirely black casts, often included storylines of black women being accosted by white men. 'It’s not a typical documentary approach. You don’t have footage,' said Buirski, who also directed The Loving Story in 2012. “I feel strongly that it is critical for people to be able to take away the feeling of what took place.”

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“Documentarian Nancy Buirski traces this shameful 1944 incident and the legal fiasco that followed, honoring a woman of color who dared to speak out after being sexually assaulted by a group of white youths.“

“With lucidity and deep feeling, Nancy Buirski's documentary maps an ugly trail of injustice and then widens its lens to pay tribute to the women of color whose refusal to be silent helped drive the evolution of the Civil Rights movement.”

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“ The Rape of Recy Taylor is more than a documentary about a woman who was raped. This documentary uses the rape of Recy Taylor as a lens to look at how sexual violence and racial injustice are irrevocably linked, and threaded into the moral fabric of this country.”

"The justice that Recy Taylor seeks shows the indomitable spirit of woman who survived the unimaginable, and used her voice to break her silence and lift the veil on the double edge sword of what it means to be black and a woman in this country."

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