Sarah Burns, daughter of major documentary filmmaker Ken Burns) and her husband David McMahon will present a Q&A following a screening of their new film, Central Park Five, winner of the New York Film Critics Circle Award.
Sarah Burns and David McMahon codirected and cowrote the film with Ken Burns. Based on Sarah's book of the same name, the film documents a miscarriage of justice of epic proportions-- the wrongful conviction of five Harlem teenagers in the rape and beating of a white jogger in Central Park in 1989.
The event is cosponsored by UAlbany's School of Criminal Justice, PBS television station WMHT, and the New York State Writers Institute.
More about the event: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/programpages/cfs.html#central
More about the film on the PBS website: http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/centralparkfive/
Picture: Sarah Burns
