The film about two brothers navigating abuse in a Los Angeles Foster Home has won the SXSW 2026 Audience Award.
Executive produced by John Legend through his Get Lifted Film production company, “I Got My Brother” is a documentary set as a conversation-style interview with brothers Jarrett and Baylon Harper reflecting back on their time spent in a Los Angeles foster home where they were routinely abused and neglected.
“I met Jarrett during a 2015 visit to Lancaster Prison. He had already spent nearly two decades inside, and even in a place built to take away a person’s hope,” shares Legend. “I saw a man who refused to be defined by the worst thing he had survived. “I was proud to help fight for his freedom, and grateful when Governor Jerry Brown commuted his sentence and Governor Newsom sent him home. What moves me most is what Jarrett has done since returning to the community. He carries the pain of a childhood spent in foster homes that should have protected him, and he has turned it into purpose. This film is Jarrett and his brother Baylon telling their own story, in their own words. You listen to them, and somewhere in there, you stop seeing strangers and start seeing two kids who belonged to all of us. That is what film can do. It closes the distance. I’m proud to share it through Get Lifted, and I hope you watch.”
Brothers Jarrett and Baylon Harper reminisce with wry humor and personal insight about their young lives spent in an abusive Los Angeles foster home through in this true-life film.
Check out the trailer below:
