Title: "Gridiron Heroes"

Status: In production

Gridiron Heroes is the powerful story of Chris Canales, whose life was completely altered after a spinal cord injury left him paralyzed during a championship high school football game. After overcoming excruciating physical and emotional pain, Chris learned of others who suffered similar injuries. Along with his father, Chris formed “Gridiron Heroes”, an organization whose goal is to get immediate help to other spinal injury victims and their families. The doc begins by retracing Chris’ journey in addition to the journeys of other young athletes whose dreams were shattered in a matter of seconds, including recently injured Cory Borner, a 14 year-old athlete whom Carnales befriended through "Gridiron Heroes". The documentary is set to be shot on location in and around Texas and California.

Andy Lauer (The Tehuacan Project) will write/direct. Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights) will executive produce along with producer Edward Bass. HuAid and Gabrielle Llewellyn are co-executive producers in conjunction with Reel-Aid.org (www.reel-aid.org).