From This American Life to the 2017 Sundance Film Festival
Matt Ruskin's drama Crown Heights premieres tonight in Park City.
World premiering tonight at the Sundance Film Festival, Crown Heights reconstructs the harrowing true story of Colin Warner, whose wrongful conviction for a murder in the Brooklyn neighborhood becomes the lifelong cause of friend Carl King.
The drama, written and directed by Matt Ruskin, stars Lakeith Stanfield (pictured) in the lead role. As Ruskin tells Filmmaker magazine, it all started with a radio broadcast:
“After hearing Colin and Carl’s piece on This American Life, I was really blown away by them.
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