ABOUT THE PROJECT
LOGLINE
After a fire wipes their small town of Pacific Palisades off the map, the local high school baseball team bands together for a season in the wake of the devastation. A coming-of-age story that collides with a natural disaster asks: When you’ve lost everything, what does it mean to win?
SYNOPSIS
Small towns in Texas have their football. But in the Palisades, baseball is king. Palisades Charter High School’s baseball team is a marquee program in one of the most competitive leagues in the country.
On January 7th, 2025, that all went up in smoke.
The most destructive wildfire in California history decimated the Palisades. Despite losing their homes, their school, their hometown, the boys of Pali High’s baseball team come together just weeks after the fire, determined to play the game they’ve always loved, the one piece of home they have left: baseball.
GOING HOME follows their roller coaster season. Against cutthroat competition, they fight for their D1 dreams. They grapple with grief, the loss not just of houses or possessions but an entire community. They face the sky-high expectations amplified by their coach, by the national press, by themselves, to succeed in spite of everything — to win when their town needs it most.
How will this next generation navigate a world on fire — a world that seems bent on breaking them? A world in which not even the adults know the answers? As the school threatens to pave over what’s left of their home field, and families struggle with the realities of rebuilding, the boys wonder if they’ll ever be able to go home again.
But through baseball, alongside the brothers they’ve played with their whole lives, again and again they cross home plate. And as they make playoffs and vie for the championship, they show us that home isn’t just a place. It’s something you build. Together.
PROJECT TYPE Documentary Feature
DIRECTOR Brian George and Eb George
PRODUCER Eb George
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Anna Barnes, Mark Donovan, Lara Krug, Gelsomina Picariello
director of photography Brian George
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