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  • Brothers from the Suburbs

    1 season

    Brothers from the Suburbs is a short-form digital comedy series that chronicles the highs and lows of three awkward black teens coming of age in a predominantly white, suburban, private school environment.

    Series by Patrick Wimp.

  • JustLatasha's Inner Actions

    1 season

    A sketch comedy series from a Black Bi woman's sense by 2022 #OTVFellow Latasha Mercer.

    "Latasha" is not essentially real; she's a universally different character in each sketch, however all named Latasha. The series grabs her PoV on queerness, dating, and Black culture spoofs as a Black Bi wom...

  • REMENDO

    Movie

    Drama-comedy short created by Brazilian filmmaker, Roger Ghil.

    1ST Zé runs a repair shop where he toils over the dregs and discards of his suburban seaside town. Zé is a black bisexual middle-aged man looking for love, and facing down the traumas of colonialism to find a new kind of freedom. Bu...

  • Sexuality Out Loud - The Dating Edition

    1 season

    Four classmates find themselves on deep dive game show -- equal parts educational and pleasurable for the sake of pleasure. Meanwhile, another student, Kaia, gets some life-changing news. Enter an interactive environment where young people have deeper conversations about sex, sexuality, and repro...

  • Been T/Here

    1 season

    How do trans* people of color thrive? Join Chicagoans on their journey to find love, creativity, and healing in BeenT/Here. America may be discovering trans* people, but they've been here all along. Peel back the hype to share genuine moments with a nerdy immigrant, a kinky organizer, a catholic ...

  • HER: a micro-série

    1 season

    Dramedy series now streaming on OTV.

    HER: a micro-série is a Coming-of-Age Dramedy about a Black Bisexual Woman who struggles with high functioning depression as she navigates her late twenties. Imani finds escape through dance, dating apps, family, & friends.

  • Been T/Here - Season 1

    7 Episodes

    How do trans* people of color thrive? Join Chicagoans on their journey to find love, creativity, and healing in BeenT/Here. America may be discovering trans* people, but they've been here all along. Peel back the hype to share genuine moments with a nerdy immigrant, a kinky organizer, a catholic ...

  • Uneverything

    1 season

    A comedic series following a 37-year old black woman who tries to come to terms with being husband-less, parent-less, childless, and quite possibly terrible at everything.

  • Questions

    Movie

    Short film by Sibusisiwe Gugu Manqele now streaming on OTV.

    A short experimental poetry film about trauma, healing and self-actualisation, narrated by a woman telling and owning her past and present experiences. The film is set at a diary session at a therapist’s couch, where we see Zethu talkin...

  • ambivert

    2 items

    A meditation in manic visuals and ethereal sounds. Transmuting energy from chronic pain, anxiety, and lethargy into thrusting sexual freedom, joy, anger, empathy for self and communities of color.

  • Beside Myself - Season 1

    1 Episode

    Pilot from Erin Elizabeth coming to OTV June 1, 2023.

    After stumbling upon a secret that she’s been hiding from herself, the unruly subconscious of an anxiety-riddled woman is forced to give herself an ultimatum: start socializing, going outside, and being their Gotdamn authentic self, or else ...

  • Whole

    Movie

    Short film by Monty Cole coming to the #OTVAPP October 1st.

    Growing up in the suburbs, 12 year old Brandon Moore feels like he's maybe missing parts of his Blackness. When his friend's aunt accidentally takes him into a part of the city where he's not supposed to go, Brandon discovers that mayb...

  • The Lisa B. Experience

    Movie

    Lisa B offerS a rare alternative of her incredibly popular, Unpolitical Woman Comedy Show, called the VERY POLITICAL WOMAN Comedy Show. The live show was during Black History Month, 2023.

    Powered by lululemon and #blkcreatives, Lisa Beasley, brings her comedic prowess to Tribe Supper Club to ma...

  • Damaged Goods

    1 season

    Barely surviving the city of Chicago, Damaged Goods centers around four messy young adults will experience a complete loss of self-identity, which propels them onto a path of uncertainty.

  • Sunflower

    Movie

    Short drama by Elizabeth Tawose.

    In a world where fair and light-skinned women are seen as the standard of beauty, high school student Amari Stevens struggles to see the beauty in her dark brown skin color. When Amari is rejected by her crush Cameron Jones, for her “lighter” friend Kiara Willia...

  • Bermuda

    Movie

    Short film created by Jasmine Ogunjimi.

    On the evening of her 25th birthday, Tomi Adebiyi is surrounded by half-packed suitcases in a frantic attempt to book a one-way ticket to the island of Bermuda. An all too familiar interruption from her hysterical praying mother and proverb reciting uncle ...

  • Opaque

    Movie

    Music video in dystopian future by Midwest-based artist, Finnoh.

    Director - Elise Holowicki
    Producer - Andrea Raby
    DP - Joe Martinez Jr.

  • Serial Dreamer

    4 items

    In Hair Story, a pilot for Serial Dreamer, residents of an artsy Black co-op tell their wild stories to an out-of-work drag queen as she styles their hair to pay her rent.

    // MUSIC VIDEO / DREAM SEQUENCE //

    WATCH THE FULL VIDEO: http://www.weareo.tv/presents/bsayf

    Apple: https://itunes.apple....

  • Handsome
    1 season

    Handsome

    1 season

    Romantic comedy series by Devon Kane.

    After leaving a 10-year relationship, Devon has to navigate through a dating scene he knows nothing about - getting up to speed with things like dating apps, OnlyFans and being called DADDY, to name a few. When Devon meets Gabriel however, all of this falls...

  • The First 30 Days

    Movie

    Dramatic-comedy by Skylar Rochon.

    “The First 30 Days” is a dramatic-comedy about 3 early 20-something black girls, S.J, Penny, and Iman, who make the move to NYC together after only meeting online. After 30 days in NYC, the trio is invited to a pre-game by a group of strangers, where the typical...

  • Futurewomen

    3 seasons

    Futurewomen - Season 2 premieres September 1st.

    Futurewomen documents women of color creating, through dialogues, story circles and performance workshops, a collective heroine who must adapt to oppressive environs and circumstances.

    It combines the drama of artistic creation, representations ...

  • Caluim
    Movie + 1 extra

    Caluim

    Movie + 1 extra

    Dramatic fantasy by Brazilian filmmaker, Marcos Alexandre now streaming.

    A black actress receives very peculiar treatment on a film set made up of a white crew.

    Cast: Meniky Marla, Hamilton Junior, Lia Nascimento, Gabriel Carvalho and Gabriel
    Director: Marcos Alexandre
    Screenplay: Marcos Alexa...

  • Save Face
    Movie + 1 extra

    Save Face

    Movie + 1 extra

    Psychological thriller by Ian Martin.

    CONTENT WARNING: Blood, police violence

    A Black boy must navigate personal and political revolution when he is suddenly exposed in an alternate world that presumes him extinct.

  • VELVET
    1 season

    VELVET

    1 season

    VELVET is co-created by Allie Dunn, Leo Gilbert, Dru Greenwood, Tyla Landry, Sydney Levison, Clifton Lyons, and Becky Schultz.

    When Demetra, a competitive professional, is forced to reevaluate her social life, she strikes up a friendship with Cymone, her seemingly much cooler coworker. As their ...