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    Ava DuVernay Hopes You Hear 'The Heartbeat Of The Boys' In Central Park 5

    In her Netflix mini-series When They See Us, DuVernay tells the story of five innocent teens who were pressured into falsely confessing to the 1989 assault and rape of a white jogger in Central Park.
    by Noel King May 31, 2019 4 minutes
    Caleel Harris plays Antron McCray in Ava DuVernay's Netflix miniseries, <em>When They See Us. "</em>He was a part of a gorgeous small family unit — his mother, his father, and himself — living in Harlem," DuVernay says. "He had dreams of being a baseball player."

    Filmmaker Ava DuVernay says she receives a couple dozen tweets a day from people asking her to make a movie from their life story. But this #wishfulthinking tweet from Raymond Santana caught her eye:

    Santana was one of five teens arrested for the 1989 assault and rape of a white woman in New York's Central Park. The boys were pressured into false confessions and convicted. All served time. A murderer who was already serving a life sentence later confessed to the rape.

    DuVernay remembers when it all happened: "I was a teenager on the West Coast when they

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