Type: Television series
Length: 1 hour
Genre: Drama
Coal Bridge is a high school sports drama about a young, Black financier who leaves behind a lucrative career in Manhattan for the chance to rebuild a high school wrestling program in an economically depressed, southwestern Virginia coal mining town.
Drawing on his past experience as a college wrestler and gifted with an innate ability to see value where others don’t, he puts together a team of raw talent that challenges the established, competitive programs in the region, while upending the social order in this insular, Appalachian community already struggling with losses brought on by poverty, mental health, and the opioid crisis.
Coal Bridge explores the themes of race, class, and personal sacrifice
Written by Jon Pineda & Khris Baxter
Pilot and pitch available upon request