Margot Fahnestock on stage at Sundance with Adrienne Becker and LaTosha Brown
project

Mother Justice

film series
location
United States
Mother Justice is a scripted short film series that reflects the fullness of Black motherhood — joy, resilience, complexity — against the backdrop of the Black maternal health crisis. This isn't another collection of trauma stories. This is radical imagination in action. Selected films offer a window into the lived experiences and aspirations from a range of socioeconomic, geographic, religious, and cultural backgrounds, revealing often concealed success stories from a variety of Black experiences.
Black mothers have always been the heartbeat of our communities — holding joy, wisdom, and life in the face of systems that too often fail to see them. These films are more than storytelling; they are urgent interventions that reclaim narrative power and demand a world where Black motherhood is not endangered, but empowered.”
– LaTosha Brown, Executive Producer
“You feel like you’re crazy but there’s a whole lot of other women feeling the same way and they have your back…to feel like you’re not alone really helped me feel confident in the questions I was asking.”
– Community voice

The Problem

These films surface disruptive, humanizing perspectives that don’t just invite audiences to think differently — they move people to feel and call them to act. The intention is not to re-traumatize, but to pivot toward light, hope, and solutions from which we can all build.

THE FILMS

The partnership: Built for impact

Mother Justice is powered by a partnership that brings together two organizations with deeply complementary expertise — each a leader in its field, and together uniquely equipped to turn storytelling into measurable social change. 

PMC is a global leader in using entertainment to drive social and behavioral change. With award-winning series broadcast in the U.S. and more than 50 countries, PMC has spent decades refining a storytelling methodology that begins with community-centered formative research, applies behavioral and social cognitive theory to narrative design, helps the audience bridge the fiction to real-life action, and follows through with rigorous impact evaluation. PMC grounds stories in the real lives of the community and measures whether those stories create change.  

Level Forward is an Oscar-nominated, Emmy, Tony, and Anthem Award-winning public benefit entertainment company with a track record of producing bold, critically acclaimed work and accounts for how that work impacts people. Known for works including The AssistantRed, White and BlueMountainsOklahoma!; and Suffs, Level Forward brings world-class production expertise, an eye for exceptional emerging talent, and deep experience in designing dissemination strategies that reach the right audiences.  

What makes this partnership so powerful is not just what each organization brings individually — it is how those capabilities interlock. PMC’s research and the thoughtful exploration of stories and creative teams ensures the films are rooted in evidence and lived experience. Level Forward’s production expertise ensures those insights are translated into compelling, high-quality cinema. PMC’s and Level Forward’s combined expertise shapes the ancillary content – all with the goal of creating intentional forms of impact. Community partnerships with nonprofits, service providers, community-based organizations, individuals and more extend the stories into audiences’ real lives. Level Forward’s dissemination expertise ensures those stories and resources reach the people who need them most. And PMC’s evaluation framework closes the loop, generating evidence about what works that can inform future projects and advance the broader field of impact entertainment. 

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