The Loving Story
New York Premiere

The Loving Story

Spotlight
| USA | 77 MINUTES | English
Female Director(s), Documentary

Loving v. Virginia was a watershed civil rights case in which the United States Supreme Court declared Virginia's anti-miscegenation statute unconstitutional in 1967. A racially charged criminal trial and a heartrending love story converge in this documentary about the Lovings, an interracial couple who fell in love and married at a tumultuous social and political time in American history, yet nevertheless brought about change where previously no one else could. Through stunning archival footage of the Lovings, the film revisits this public battle through the eyes of a private couple who simply wanted to have the right to get married and live in the place they called home.

Director Nancy Buirski reacquaints us with this famous couple with the same grace and elegance of the soft-spoken but driven Mildred Loving herself, and subsequently breathes vibrant new life into history. Beyond the trials and legal battles, Buirski delicately anchors this inspiring film in an engaging human love story with a timely message of marriage equality, echoing the words of Mildred on the 40th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision: "I support the freedom to marry for all. That's what Loving, and loving, are all about."

Tribeca Talks After the Movie (4/27 only): Join director Nancy Buirski, attorney Phil Hirschkop, who represented the Lovings, Anthony Romero, Executive Director of the ACLU, and David Boies, Chairman of Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP as they discuss this landmark case and the current issues surrounding race and marriage equality. Moderated by Orlando Bagwell, director of the Ford Foundation's JustFilms initiative.


Cast & Credits
Directed by
Nancy Buirski and Nancy Buirski
NANCY BUIRSKI is the founder and was the director of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. She is a producer of Time Piece, Alex Gibney's Harlem Woodstock, and Althea. She is next directing the doc The Mystery of the Moulin Rouge and is producing a fiction version of the Lovings' story.
Editor
Elisabeth Haviland James
Producer
Nancy Buirksi, Elisabeth Haviland James
Executive Producer
Marshall Sonenshine, Sheila Nevins
Director
Nancy Buirski
Co-Producer
Patrica Romeu

Contacts
Press Contact
Darin Darakananda
Murphy PR
New York, NY 10011
ddarakananda@murphypr.com
Sales Contact
Louise Rosen
Louise Rosen Ltd.
New Brunswick, ME 04011
Phone: 207 725 8215
lrosenltd@aol.com
Print Origin
Elisabeth Haviland James
Thornapple Films
Phone: 917.432.8684
biz@thornapplefilms.com
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Photograph by Grey Villet



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