Justice for My Sister Collective (JFMS) is a nonprofit arts organization founded in 2011 with the mission to create community-responsive pathways for low-income filmmakers of color, ages 12-40, to enter the TV and film industry. Our main goal is to increase visibility and job accessibility for underrepresented, low-income local filmmakers, particularly women of color, LGBTQAI+, former foster youth, and survivors of gender-based violence. Our students, staff, and programming reflect our commitment to ending all forms of violence with a healing-centered, trauma-informed approach.

We exist to provide our students with the technical and soft skills needed to succeed in TV and film, to contribute to the diversification of a highly segregated industry, to amplify the voices of filmmakers from communities of color who have been affected by the trauma of abuse and being silenced, so that they may heal, and to provide a platform for our students to share their personal stories so they can reach new audiences without setting off painful, emotional triggers.