Welcome to Bresee!

About Bresee

The Bresee Foundation is a nonprofit community center that is a source of faith, hope and service to low-income youth, adults and families in central Los Angeles. We serve nearly 2,000 individuals annually, primarily at-risk youth from the Mid-Wilshire, Koreatown, Pico Union, and Westlake neighborhoods (90004, 90020, 90057). Most residents live below poverty level and have no access to health care. Gang mayhem and juvenile violent crime are rampant, and over 50% of students are not expected to graduate high school.
Learn more!

- watch video on "Saving L.A. Kids From Gangs"

4th Annual Youth Film Festival on Social Justice

The mission of the Youth Film Festival on Social Justice is to inspire high school students to think critically about issues impacting their community, and to teach them the skills necessary to make life-changing media about the issue. We assemble an audience of influential adults to critique the films and hopefully act on their messages. Afterwards, we hold a community event and hand out awards, as many as our budget allows. The goal is that one day every filmmaker who submits a film we be given an award, a video camera, the tool with which to go forth and make more films for social change.
** See event flier here.