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Blackity BLACK Pride

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  • In a Lifetime

    Movie

    Olly and Ade are two friends who cherish their bond and relationship. However, one strives to leave the environment by any means while the other grows dependent on the friendship.

  • The Garden of Edette

    Movie

    An elderly Creole woman’s life is bound to her flesh-eating garden. When Edette unexpectedly befriends a young girl before her next sacrifice, she must choose between killing her new friend or dying alongside her beloved garden.

  • WingChick
    1 season

    WingChick

    1 season

    Romantic comedy by Tonja Renée Stidhum.

    Raven is a late twenty-something bougie-mixed-with-a-dash-of-hood Black girl juggling her burgeoning job as a professional dating site profile writer and a professional dating flop. She has mastered the art of intimacy without being intimate: the best fri...

  • The Retreat

    1 season

    Series created by Ashley Denise and Ricki Lynée of Nuanse Entertainment.

    A suspenseful series about schemes that unfold amongst a group of black women after a damning secret is revealed during an artist retreat. “The Retreat” was devised to highlight black women in front of and behind the camer...

  • 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.

  • Hotline
    1 season

    Hotline

    1 season

    Hotline is a murder mystery about Attorney Hazel Clarke. She is a straitlaced perfectionist who only cares about winning court cases. That all changes when her estranged sister Chelsea shows up. Hazel wrestles Chelsea out of her house but not her life. Soon after their reunion, Chelsea's dead bod...

  • Blaq In Bed

    2 seasons

    Come with questions and leave with answers. Blaq In Bed has been intentionally designed to provide folks with tips, resources and bravery needed to navigate complex spaces and discussions around intimacy, sex, disclosure and the fantasy.

  • 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...

  • Visibility Sucks!

    Movie

    Visibility Sucks is a 24-hour glimpse into the life of an artist suffering from a major identity crisis after a global pandemic sends him plummeting from the limelight to working in a grocery store. Shard, the protagonist, takes the viewer on a surreal journey as he tries his best to regain a sen...

  • lululemon presents: Well & Black Variety Show ft. Roy Kinsey

    Movie + 1 extra

    Show originally released February 2022, streaming on-demand Juneteenth 2022.

    In this hour we are celebrating Chicago's blackness by showcasing some of Chicago's finest musicians, performers, writers, and filmmakers. From behind the scenes to in front of the camera, Well and Black Variety Show i...

  • Choc
    Movie

    Choc

    Movie

    Aubrey “Choc” Muldrow grew up in a religious family on the Southside of Chicago. Knowing he was gay from an early age, he experienced taunts, threats, and violence from his family, his church, and his neighborhood. Fearing he was cursed, and would never be perceived as “normal,” he did everything...

  • The Love You Want Exists

    Movie + 1 extra

    Short film by Zanah Thirus now streaming on OTV.

    A Black Feminist couple’s attempt to plan a patriarchy-free commitment ceremony.

  • Freaky Phyllis

    1 season

    Freaky Phyllis is a 4- part comedy web series that follows the life of an elderly widow who feels like she hasn't truly lived and begins to go out, party and date!

  • A Sweetness of Lapse

    Movie

    When best friends, Ava & Mina, are introduced to the internet phenomenon of “timeline shifting”, they decide to try it one night. The result tests their friendship and grasp of reality. Short fantasy drama created by Bashir Aden.

  • 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 ...

  • Nupita Obama Creates Vogua

    1 season

    Nupita Obama follows queer artists of color as they work to secure love and housing. The pilot, “Nupita Obama Creates Vogua,” launched Open TV (beta)’s (Now known as OTV - Open Television) Open TV Presents series about artists exploring alternative relationships. The first season picks up four we...

  • 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...

  • Forked Tongue
    Movie + 1 extra

    Forked Tongue

    Movie + 1 extra

    Short film by Melanie Ojwang now streaming.

    After moving back in with her overbearing mom, a recently unemployed 20-something starts creating juicy audio erotica under a male pseudonym and struggles to keep her identity and her hobby a secret when her fanbase explodes.

  • Bronx Cunt Tour

    1 season

    Emerging Artists Nic Kay takes solo performance #LILBLK on the road in the Bronx cunt tour.

  • Chestbound

    Movie

    A drama about healing, acceptance, and forgiveness by Janine Anne Uyanga.

    Following Ray's top surgery, intimate moments with their chosen family are interrupted by the news of their father's stroke, but returning home to see him would mean confronting Ray's estranged mother.

  • 28 Grams
    1 season

    28 Grams

    1 season

    Series created by D.J. Walker.

    Two cousins scramble to make their budding weed grow op a legitimate business but quickly find they'll need more than the proper paper work to get a license from the state.

  • 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 ...

  • 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.

  • 35
    Movie + 1 extra

    35

    Movie + 1 extra

    In this social thriller, Tonia Stanwell finds herself on a nightmarish quest through a mysterious government agency to get to her 36th birthday. As our protagonist navigates this surreal and absurd world hellbent on preventing her from getting to 36, we examine the social issues and portray the v...