“I’d only be able to make this film now, having done everything I’ve done before,” says Ava DuVernay on an unseasonably warm afternoon in Manhattan. Donald Trump and the Central Park Five: the racially charged rise of a demagogue Read moreIt was 19 April 1989 when a 28-year-old investment banker named Trisha Meili was beaten and raped while jogging in Central Park. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ava DuVernay on the set of When They See Us. But the Central Park case left her disenchanted with the media, and what seemed to be the skewed and extrajudicial workings of the criminal justice system. But she’s also aware some viewers will learn about the Central Park Five case through When They See Us.

Source: The Guardian May 29, 2019 06:56 UTC