BROWN & BONDED (2026)

Over 70% of Animal Welfare hold biases against people of color.

Brown and Bonded is an ensemble documentary that follows People of Color as they fight to keep the animals they love in a system that too often treats them as risks to manage instead of families to support. The film opens on America’s feel‑good mythology of pet ownership—celebrity banter and sweeping easy adoption promises—then pivots to a painful contradiction: shelters overflow and euthanize for lack of space, while devoted would‑be adopters are denied again and again. In the final stretch, families who have been rejected elsewhere find ways to “get to the yes.”