Titletown, TX - ‘All We Got’
‘All We Got’ follows incarcerated youth at Gainesville State School and the mentors that offer them a chance at redemption through football. The full series is available on Facebook Watch and Amazon Prime.
Role: Director, Co-Producer, Editor
Episode 1 - Welcome to Gainesville
Gainesville State School, a juvenile correctional facility in Texas, has never been known for its winning football program. First-year Head Coach Roy Burns hopes to change that.
Episode 2 - Three Hours of Freedom
As Darius' future is decided by the court, Coach Burns prepares for his first game and the team attempts to learn from their pasts.
Episode 3 - 'Prepare for the worst'
Joe meets a new four-legged friend and Coach Burns seeks to solidify his defense ahead of a pivotal second game.
Episode 4 - Boiling Point
Coach Burns' decision to tend to Christopher's broken leg leaves the team and the season in peril.
More about Titletown, TX: ‘All We Got’
Producer and director Jessica Koscielniak was tipped off to the story while in Texas producing the first season of “Titletown, TX” and negotiated exclusive access to document the football program for the season's duration. Koscielniak lead a small embedded team for four months at the maximum-security state-run juvenile prison, earning the trust of the Texas Juvenile Justice Department faculty, staff, and incarcerated teenagers to tell their stories both on and off the field.
The series explores the cultural and socioeconomic realities that many of the Gainesville students grew up with and chronicles the highs and lows of a football season - including catastrophic injuries, a game-ending brawl, and a late push for the playoffs. Rookie head coach Roy Burns, whose goal is to help the teens break their lifestyles of crime, must balance the frustration of losing with his ability to be the positive influence these kids so desperately need in their lives.
Titletown, TX: All We Got is a series about redemption, hope, race, socioeconomic status, and criminal justice - told through the powerful lens of football in Texas. The result is a fascinating insider’s look at young men already in the “school to prison pipeline” and their desperate attempt to break that chain of cyclical poverty, crime, and violence. After viewing the trailer for the series, one of the students admitted, “You told our story better than we could have.”