This evening presents two of the four films in the AALS Annual Meeting Law and Film Series and features two documentary films on legal topics, chosen for their cinematic and legal value, identifying film resources for possible classroom instructional purposes, as well as raising general awareness for law and film appreciation purposes. For each of these two nights of film showings, we will present double feature films chosen by the AALS Annual Meeting Film Advisory Committee. There will be brief discussions and commentary in connection with the films.
Professor Jessica Silbey will introduce the documentary films and the co-director Sarah Burns who will appear and discuss her film.
8:00 p.m.
Central Park Five (2012), http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2380247
Film runtime is 119 minutes.
This film, directed by Sarah Burns, Ken Burns and David McMahon is a documentary that reexamined the notorious 1989 trials and false imprisonments of several young Black and Latino men accused of rape, who served several years in jail, and were later released when the real perpetrator confessed (13 years later), as he had been caught in 1989 and was already serving a life sentence. The co-director Sarah Burns, will appear and discuss the film after its showing.
10:30 a.m.
Art of the Steal (2010)