Amazon Studios and IFC Films have released to the trailer to Matt Ruskin’s Sundance audience award winning drama Crown Heights, starring Atlanta actor Lakeith Stanfield as a man wrongfully imprisoned for over 20 years for a murder he didn't commit. Based on a podcast titled This American Life, the pic is set spring of…

Crown Heights, Matt Ruskin’s Sundance audience award winner based on the true story of a wrongful prison sentence, will hit theaters August 25, 2017. Amazon Studios and IFC Films are releasing. The drama, written and directed by Ruskin and starring Lakeith Stanfield and Nnamdi Asomugha, won the Audience Award for U.S…

Matt Ruskin’s Crown Heights became this year’s claimant of the Sundance U.S. Dramatic Audience Award tonight, after a powerful festival debut for the story – inspired by an episode of the This American Life podcast – about a man, wrongfully imprisoned for over 20 years for a murder he didn’t commit, and the people who…