BATON ROUGE - The Louisiana Academy of Production, a film-making charter high school, is set to open its doors in Fall 2026 in Baton Rouge. According to school leaders, there are only four other schools like it in the country.

“These students will have the opportunity to have their core curriculum and their career education curriculum integrated into film, so basically what we are doing is creating a pipeline from high school to career or high school to college," Fallon Buckner Ward, the executive director of the school, said.

Ceaser Hendricks is the founding principal of the school and says faculty will find a way to bring filmmaking into every course.

"Our students are integrated into film productions in each of our core classes," Hendricks said. “In math, you're going to learn how to

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