Director Amanda Lipitz’s crowd-pleasing documentary “Step” made its world premiere in the U.S. Documentary Competition section at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, where it was picked up by Fox Searchlight.

The film chronicles the senior year of a girls high school step team in inner-city Baltimore, as they try to become the first in their families to attend college. The girls strive to make their dancing a success against the backdrop of social unrest in their troubled city.

Produced by Amanda Lipitz and Steven Cantor, the film’s cast of characters includes Blessin Giraldo, Cori Grainger, Tayla Solomon, Gari McIntyre and Paula Dofat.

Fox Searchlight has set an August 4, 2017 USA theatrical premiere date for the documentary feature.

Ahead of its release, Shadow and Act has an exclusive first-look at a set of images from the film which are embedded below.

The trailer follows underneath the images (release poster above).