Nancy Buirski was born on June 29, 1945 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. She was a producer and writer, known for Loving (2016), The Loving Story (2011) and The Rape of Recy Taylor (2017). She was married to Peter Buirski and Kenneth Friedlein. She died on August 29, 2023 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
In 1998 she founded the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, in collaboration with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and directed it for ten years.