Convicted in 1990 as a serial rapist and murderer, Reyes confessed in 2001 to the crime against the female jogger to another inmate in prison and later to authorities.
He was later found to have committed a rape in the park two days earlier. The film also presents analysis to suggest that the police should have connected Matias Reyes to the case at the time that it happened. It documents the accounts of four of being coerced to confess to the rape each withdrew such confessions before trial and always maintained his innocence.
The documentary provides background, interviews, expert analysis, and details of associated facts related to the case, prosecution and the conviction of the five suspects for the rape and also on charges related to assault of a male jogger. In July 1990, during the trial of the first three of the defendants, The New York Times described the attack on the female jogger as "one of the most widely publicized crimes of the 1980s." She was a 28-year-old investment banker at the time. Meili was so badly beaten that she was in a coma for 12 days. The Sydney film festival runs from June 6-20.The Central Park jogger case was based on the violent assault, rape, and sodomy of Trisha Meili, a female jogger, in New York City's Central Park, on April 19, 1989, as well as what were thought to be related attacks by a large group of youths on eight other persons in the park that night, including two that left victims unconscious. Last year, the Australian censors banned the French film Baise-Moi but only after initially giving it a certificate. The festival is seeking a review of the censors' decision. Child sexual abuse was not cited in the original decision of the classification board and the Sydney film festival is seeking clarification as to the use of this terminology, as the film depicts youths of 16 or 17 years of age who are portrayed by actors over the age of 18". The Sydney film festival organisers released a statement saying they were "disappointed by the decision and extremely surprised that, in making its decision, the classification review board refers to scenes of 'child sexual abuse'.
It was due to show at last year's London film festival, but was pulled - not because of its explicit content, but because Clark became embroiled in a physical altercation with its British distributor Hamish McAlpine. The movie, as is usual with Clark's oeuvre, deals very graphically with the sex lives of Californian teenagers. The Australian office of film and literature classification explained its decision to ban the film by saying that the movie, which was due to screen at the festival this week, "deals with matters of sex in such a way that they offend against the standards of morality". Ken Park, controversial director Larry Clark's latest foray into the sex lives of American minors, has been cut from the Sydney film festival as Australian censors have refused to issue it a certificate for exhibition.
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