The product of alcoholism, abuse, and neglect, Louisiana native Billy Roth was sent to live with relatives at the age of four. Taught to box by an uncle who raised him for a short while, by the time he was 16, he was boxing inmates at the notorious Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Juggled between homes and cities, he disappeared into the world of amateur, and later professional, boxing, while his father slowly drank himself to death.

The Dance is a hypnotic, unflinching look at the past four decades of the remarkable life of Billy Roth, from his amateur and professional boxing victories, to his tireless efforts as a volunteer coach and referee in the Louisiana prison system, to his role as surrogate father to men convicted of armed robbery, manslaughter, and murder. When he could have given in to self-pity or despair, he used the only tool he had to build a life for himself. In the process, he has transformed the lives of many, many more.

The Dance combines a visually stunning look inside the country's most dangerous prisons, along with music from world class blues, gospel and bluegrass musicians, and first hand accounts from inmates, former students, and Billy himself, the man thousands of convicted felons call "Pops." One day, he dreams that one of his students will become world champion - to make it to "The Dance." And it seems that dream just may be within reach.

Country music star Trace Adkins makes his feature film narration debut
Music Supervisor Scott Brasher, an award-winning composer, arranger, and producer, created the original music for "The Dance," assembling a team of world class blues, gospel, country and bluegrass musicians to complement the film?s haunting visuals. Featured in the film are multi-platinum RCA recording artist, Sara Evans, Capitol Records multi-platinum artist, Trace Adkins, legendary guitarist Phil Keaggy and alt-country favorite / Texas rocker, Jack Ingram

Franklin Roosevelt was America’s president when Eddie Robinson coached his first game. Fifty seven years later, Robinson left Grambling State University as the winningest coach in the history of college football. Initially a coach for a segregated society, he has helped football transcend race in America he loves and treasures. Yet institutionalized racial barriers kept Robinson a secret from white America for more than twenty-five years until Howard Cosell did an ABC special on Grambling in the late 1960’s. Outside of the world of sport, white America still barely knows him. In the African-American community, he is very likely the best-known coaching America. He is surely the most beloved.

The Eddie Robinson Story will chronicle Coach Robinson’s life and his time at Grambling in vivid detail. He overcame all those things that might have predicted that it was not possible for the son of a sharecropper and a domestic worker to become a success. He earned a master’s degree, became the president of the American Football Coaches Association, and helped thousands of young boys become outstanding men. More than wins, they may be his greatest legacy.

But as much as Coach Robinson’s film will be about sports, it will be a social history as well. The film is a lens through which viewers can see the challenges and turmoil of the civil rights movement from the perspective of a sports figure who worked the playing fields of a black campus while caring deeply about the stakes and outcomes of the struggle. This film will place the hard-news events of the day in the time frame of the trials of Robinson’s teams of that era.

The Eddie Robinson Story will stand as a lasting testimony to the work of a true American hero.

Eddie Robinson with Richard Lapchick.

In the Fall of 2005, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita churned ashore and wreaked havoc upon the already endangered coastline of Louisiana. Washing Away: Losing Louisiana tells the stories of six Louisianans and how the storms affected the coastline, their land and their livelihoods. These people share their stories and their knowledge of the larger impacts of coastal land loss on the environment, wildlife, the economy, industry, culture and communities.

The participants include New Orleans chef Leah Chase, the owner of the famous Dooky Chase Restaurant; Errol Domingue, a third-generation sugar cane, rice, cattle and crawfish farmer from Erath; Preston Dore, a shrimper from Delcambre whose seafood restaurant, bar and distribution business were destroyed by Rita. Marlon Horton, a 26-year-old New Orleans East resident, videotaped his harrowing experiences during and following Katrina including the flooding of his home, his helicopter rescue, and evacuation to the Causeway bridge and then to the Astrodome. Also featured are Port Fourchon port director Ted Falgout and Kerry St. Pe, a marine biologist and director of the Barataria-Terrebone National Estuary, a 4.2 million acre area currently experiencing the world’s fastest rate of land loss.

Academy Award-winning actress Susan Sarandon narrates the program, which features music by Cajun performer Zachary Richard, New Orleans jazz singer Leah Chase and the talented Cajun band L’Angelus.

A film exploring the future of Antigua and it's precious resources.

Haynes/Geadelmann Pictures is producing the feature documentary "Kiss The Soldiers. This film chronicles the fate of freedom for European prisoners and American soldiers whose lives crossed in early May, 1945 - when the U.S. Army liberated the Nazi death camp Mauthausen and its sub camps. Against the backdrop of the last year of WW2, the film weaves the personal reflections of liberators with testimony from camp survivors, rare archival footage, never-before-seen photographs, and the unprecedented deathbed confession of the SS Standartenfuhrer Franz Ziereis.

A foundation's effort to build a church in every one of Louisiana's prisons.

A Song in My Heart is a short documentary exploring the aftermath of the most devasting natural disaster in American History- Hurricane Katrina. From the rooftops of the 9th ward to the shelters of Baton Rouge, Louisianans share their hearts and souls about surviving the storm and imagining what their future holds.