Nancy Buirski Quotations

Instead of the classic, heroic story that we all so much want to see, we see a story about a man who unfortunately can't get together to do what he wants to do.

We felt there was no better time to shine a light on this issue.

As the festival grows each year, we try hard to keep intimacy at the heart of it.

The other advantage to showing this work now as compared to seeing the coverage that we saw at the time is that we do see the stories after the fact. We do see how people are coping six or seven months later. It's not just the immediate impact.

I think it will be the most important film of his life.

It's about high school women's basketball and it is uplifting.

You do feel this incredible spirit in this woman. It's a wonderful little window on an individual story that you would never have seen on television in August or September.

The tragic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina has shone a spotlight on an issue in America that has needed attention for some time. In 'Class in America' we want to address not only the tragedies, but all the stories that go with this volatile topic and engage our audiences with some of the most moving--and thought-provoking-- accounts we can find.

They're all going to be together, and that's rare. Just having those four in one room is amazing.

What we do is we see it deeper and we see it more focused.