Online Chat with the Central Park Five

 

The five wrongly convicted Harlem teenagers (now grown men) will chat online on the New York Times City Room blog, tomorrow April 17 at 6:30 PM.

Whether you missed or managed to attend our special advance screening of Central Park Five on April 5 at Page Hall with co-directors Sarah Burns and David McMahon, you may wish to pose your questions to "the five," as well as to David, Sarah and Sarah's father, Ken Burns.

City Room Blog link:  http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/.

You can still catch the film today-- its official national air date-- April 16 at 9PM, on PBS stations. WMHT will also air the film again today at 11PM, and on Wed. 4/17 at 2AM, Fri. 4/19 at 2AM, Sun. 4/21 at 3AM and Mon. 4/22 at 3AM.

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400 People at Page Hall for Central Park Five Event

Film director Sarah Burns (daughter of leading filmmaker Ken Burns) and her husband and
codirector David McMahon met with an Albany audience of approximately 400 at Page Hall last Friday following a screening of their award-winning documentary, Central Park Five.

Picture:  Sarah and David talk with the audience at Page Hall.

Special thanks to our cosponsors, the UAlbany School of Criminal Justice, and PBS station WMHT.

The documentary tells the story of five Harlem teenagers falsely convicted of the rape and attempted murder of a female jogger in Central Park in the 1980s.

Sarah and David has such a great time that they expressed a wish to come back to Albany with the "five," who are seeking damages from the City of New York.

More about the film:  http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/centralparkfive/

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Central Park Five in the Schenectady Gazette

Sara Foss of the Gazette writes an article in conjunction with tomorrow's UAlbany screening of Ken Burns' Central Park Five, followed by a Q&A with co-directors Sarah Burns and David McMahon.

"Sarah Burns learned about the case in 2003 while working as an intern for Jonathan Moore, one of the attorneys representing the five young men wrongfully convicted of the jogger’s rape and assault. Burns wrote her undergraduate thesis on the case, and followed it with a book titled “The Central Park Five: A Chronicle of a City Wilding.” But the project wasn’t over....  “I couldn’t let go of this story,” Burns said. “I was so curious about it.”
More in the Gazette:  http://www.dailygazette.net/standard/ShowStoryTemplate.asp?Path=SCH/2013/04/04&ID=Ar03301&Section=Life_and_Arts

More about the event:  http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/programpages/cfs.html#central

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Central Park Five Screening in Albany

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

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