'This is what everything I've learned in making films for the last ten years, this is everything I've done, I've seen, it lead up to this moment.' Emmys nominee Ava DuVernay (ava) recalls getting the Exonerated Five's blessing on WhenTheySeeUs
, about the five Harlem teenage boys who were wrongfully convicted of rape in the 1989 Central Park jogger case, premieres in full on May 31 and grapples with ideas the director has been marinating on for decades — ideas about race, criminal justice and who gets to write history. DuVernay, 46, was a high school junior in Compton applying to journalism schools when the crime became national news .
DuVernay has probed the criminal justice system in her previous projects — most directly in her Oscar-nominated 2016 documentary, which draws a straight, infuriating line between the institution of slavery and the mass incarceration of black men. In, she depicts David Oyelowo's MLK questioning his role in the civil rights movement in a dimly lit Alabama jail.
Michael K. Williams, who plays the father of Antron McCray, took advantage of the on-set counseling when the work tapped into his own history growing up in Brooklyn, particularly a police interrogation scene shot in an abandoned jail. "It's the fear of being a young black teen in the streets of New York City," Williams says. "Fearing that I'm going to get snatched up, and the impact it had on some of my bad decision-making as a young adult.
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Ava DuVernay Reveals How the Exonerated Five Reacted to Emmy Noms: 'History Has Been Rewritten''When I called the guys, I had to explain to them what the Emmys were, and I think that is very telling.” WhenTheySeeUs creator Ava Duvernay (ava) discusses the Exonerated Five’s reaction on their Emmys nomination
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