Justice-Centered Media Projects
Media & Projects
The Work Is
the Monument.
Every project we produce is an act of reparation — a deliberate inscription of truth into the record. These are the works in progress, in development, and in the world.
As Featured In
The Real Ones with Jon Bernthal
Brett May sits down with Jon Bernthal for a raw, unfiltered conversation about incarceration, identity, transformation, and the work that follows. A defining moment in the public record of this work.
The Real Ones with Jon Bernthal — YouTube
About the Show
Jon Bernthal's podcast brings together people who have lived on the edge — athletes, veterans, artists, and those who have faced the hardest circumstances. Brett's appearance places his story and expertise in front of a national audience.
Topics Covered
- Life inside California prisons
- Transformation and identity
- Gang culture and cultural context
- The LWOP sentence and its human cost
- Restorative justice and the work ahead
Featured Video
IFGE Graduating Class
A milestone in the field of independent forensic gang expertise — celebrating the graduating class of professionals trained to bring culturally grounded, evidence-based testimony into the courtroom.
IFGE Graduating Class — YouTube
About the Program
The Independent Forensic Gang Expert college takes those with lived experience — who made the choice, committed the crimes, went to prison, and changed their lives — and gives them the training to testify with authority. The program builds the framework around it.
What This Represents
- Rigorous, evidence-based expert training
- Culturally grounded courtroom testimony
- A new standard in forensic gang expertise
- Expanding access to qualified IFGE professionals
- Brett May's commitment to the field
Literary
ForthcomingA California LWOP Experience
An awakening within the California prison system — told from the inside out. An anthology that documents survival, prison love, legacy, and the cost of endurance. Brett May's forthcoming work confronts the machinery of life without parole with unflinching clarity.
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In DevelopmentUnshackled: Legacy in the Making
A documentary exploration of what it means to build something that outlasts you — told through the voices of those who have survived the unsurvivable and chosen to create rather than collapse.
Audio
Coming SoonLWOP Conversations
Long-form conversations with thinkers, survivors, builders, and truth-tellers who are doing the work of reparative legacy in their own spheres. No comfortable answers. Only honest ones.
Our Media Philosophy
Media is not entertainment. It is the architecture of collective memory.
We do not produce content. We produce record. Every film, every book, every conversation we put into the world is a deliberate act of inscription — a refusal to let the truth be softened, sanitized, or forgotten.
We work with creators, survivors, and truth-tellers who understand that their story is not just theirs — it belongs to everyone who comes after them. We help them tell it with the full weight it deserves.