Just Like You Films

Just Like You Films (JLYF) is a Mid-American Emmy Award-winning, Oscar-qualified, women-run nonprofit 501(c)(3) film production company founded in 2009 and based in Prairie Village, Kansas. Their mission is to raise a global generation of empathetic and compassionate children through documentary storytelling about kids living with conditions such as Down syndrome, autism, cancer, burn injuries, diabetes, facial anomalies, food allergies, and anxiety/depression. JLYF has produced over 12 short documentaries and its first feature-length docu-drama, distributed educationally via Learn360 to 8 million students in 25,000 schools across the US and Canada, and theatrically through AMC Theatres. The company also licenses its proprietary Empathy Engine™ system to schools, healthcare systems, and community organizations.