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Video: Matt Ruskin’s Crown Heights – 2017 Sundance Film Fest Post Screening Q&A

Published on August 18, 2017

“I was lucky to put their own words into the film” – Matt Ruskin

It was an emotional world premiere screening at the Library especially when you have the film’s subjects there in the flesh. A humble Lakeith Stanfield and filmmaker Matt Ruskin were joined by the formerly wrongfully convicted Colin Warner and his selfless friend Carl King who arguably was robbed of his own life when doing what a limited few would do – give your life to more than just a cause. Crown Heights was adapted from an episode of This American Life and gets released via Amazon Studios this Friday, August 18th.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).