Nestor Carbonell is reaching new heights this August…

Amazon Studios and IFC Films are set to release Crown Heights, starring the 49-year-old Cuban/Spanish American actor, on August 25, 2017.

The drama, based on the true story of a wrongful prison sentence, was written and directed by Matt Ruskin. The film won the Audience Award for U.S. Dramatic features at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.

In addition to Carbonell, the film also stars Lakeith Stanfield, Nnamdi Asomugha, Natalie Paul, Bill Camp and Amari Cheatom.

Crown Heights follows events that began in the spring of 1980, when a teenager is gunned down in Flatbush, Brooklyn, and police pressure a child witness to identify a suspect. As a result, Colin Warner (Stanfield), an 18-year-old kid from nearby Crown Heights, is wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life in prison.

Warner’s childhood friend Carl ‘KC’ King (Asomugha) devotes his life to fighting for Colin’s freedom, working on appeals, taking loans for lawyer fees and becoming a legal courier to learn the court system.

Crown Heights was adapted by Ruskin from a This American Life segment.

The film is produced by Nnamdi Asomugha, Natalie Galazka and Ruskin.