Grantee Database
Justice For My Sister Collective (FBO Community Partners)
Grant Year
2023-24
Grant Program
General Operating Support
Award Amount
$46,749.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, Justice for My Sister (FBO Community Partners), salary expenses for our Executive Director and Development Director, as well as benefits for our staff for the next two years. With the grant funds, we intend to allocate $10,000 towards salary expenses for our Executive Director, who supports program development, fundraising, and partnership creation, among others, and provides overall leadership of our organization. Additionally, we plan to allocate $15,000 toward our Development Director, a new position that will focus on supporting our fundraising efforts and our organization’s growth. Lastly, to support the well-being of our staff, we will allocate $5,000 toward fringe benefits. Those investments will empower us to expand our reach, continue supporting emerging filmmakers of color, and support the long-term sustainability of our organization.
Organization Summary
Our programs aim to elevate the voices of emerging filmmakers of color who don’t see themselves represented in the TV and film industry due to nepotism, unpaid internships and exclusionary hiring practices. We also give access to arts to youth and families in communities of color where an arts education is sorely lacking. Our programs reach 2000 participants per year and include:
Afterschool Arts Programs: Healing-centered art classes for youth ages 10-18 at parks throughout LA County. Students receive filmmaking, photography, and painting classes as part of a holistic effort to use arts education as a tool for liberation. In each class students create individual or collaborative pieces of art.
Nuevas Novelas: A job-training storytelling and environmental justice intensive for teens of color, ages 13-18 which includes media literacy and film production training. Students create short films in teams which are then screened in partnership with film festivals, schools and community centers.
Video Diaries: First-time filmmakers develop autobiographical documentaries and improve their videography and editing skills with support from Justice for My Sister. They exhibit their work in a film festival that we host.
BIPOC Sci-Fi Screenwriting Lab: Fellows author original sci-fi TV pilot scripts through a lecture series and one-on-one mentorships. Fellows exhibit excerpts of their scripts in a table read in which they direct actors to interpret their characters.
Production Assistant Certification Program: A 100-hour job-training certification program geared towards working adults entering the TV & film industry. Participants receive on-the-job training and subsequent paid job placements on BIPOC-led film productions.
Teen Dating & Healthy Relationships: four 50-minute sessions designed to equip middle & high school students with knowledge about the cycle of violence, its normalization in the media, and how to recognize signs to prevent it, to set boundaries and develop emotional regulation tools to decrease violence in their communities.
Organization
Justice for My Sister
Address
1000 North Alameda Street, Ste. 240
Los Angeles
90012
County
Los Angeles
Region
South – Los Angeles & Orange
Phone
(626) 533-3706
Congressional District
California's 34th congressional district
State Assembly District
Democratic
State Senate District
Democratic
