Facing The Giants is a 2006 American Christian drama sports film directed by Alex Kendrick and produced by Sherwood Pictures with a volunteer cast and crew drawn largely from the Sherwood Baptist Church community in Georgia. The story follows high school football coach Grant Taylor who confronts a losing record personal crises including infertility and a crisis of faith while leading the Shiloh Christian Academy Eagles. Through renewed prayer and reliance on divine guidance Coach Taylor inspires his players to achieve an improbable victory that serves as a metaphor for overcoming the giants in life. The movie premiered in theaters in September 2006 and earned a theatrical gross exceeding ten million dollars on a modest production budget of roughly one hundred thousand dollars. The film was subsequently released on DVD for the United States market in early 2007 with region 1 NTSC encoding presented in widescreen format with Dolby Digital 5.1 audio and housed in a keep case featuring cover art of the team in a huddle. The DVD edition includes a comprehensive suite of supplemental materials such as a behind the scenes documentary running approximately thirty minutes an audio commentary featuring the director and lead actor discussing script development and faith integration deleted scenes including an extended locker room speech and an alternate ending a music video for the song Voice of Truth performed by Casting Crowns and a printable study guide containing discussion questions and scripture references for each major plot point. The film is classified under the drama genre and was originally categorized as Drama and placed within the Drama genre to assist in web searches. The title was added to the iOctavio.com database on 2007-01-21 marking its inclusion in that catalog of DVD movies. The home video release received favorable response from faith based audiences and has sold over one million copies in the United States solidifying its reputation as a notable inspirational sports drama widely used in church youth groups and marriage retreats as a teaching tool on perseverance and trust.