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FORCE! Presents Cadenza Screening with Open Panel Discussion
Movie
Recording of the livestream is available on-demand until 3/16/22.
Cadenza is a musical film about Black women and femmes in the visitors' waiting rooms of a prison. Directed by Anna Martine Whitehead and Wills Glasspiegel, the film extends and documents FORCE!, an opera-in-progress by Whitehead,...
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The Right Swipe
1 season
When best friends India and Margo team up to start the Right Swipe, a business fixing men’s dating profiles, they have only three rules:
One: They must use their powers for good. Two: They charge on a sliding scale. Three: They can’t sleep with their clients. Or date them. Or flirt with them.
U...
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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 ...
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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... -
Oríkì Oshun
Movie + 1 extra
Oríkì Oshun is an experimental short film that honors the Orisha Oshun, a central figure in Yoruba cosmology and spirituality. Rooted in the Yoruba tradition of oríkì—a performative act of praise that invokes the essence, attributes, and destiny of a person, place, or deity—this film reimagines t...
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#OTVretrospective
1 season
OTV Retrospective is a reflection on the past five years of the organization’s journey. Co-founders Dr. Aymar Jean Christian and Elijah McKinnon take viewers on a cinematic tour of its humble beginnings as a research project answering the simple question “do intersectional stories matter?”
The ...
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Quare Life
1 season
Four queer women of color negotiate professional and personal relationships on Chicago's south side.
//CAST AND CREW//
M Shelly Conner (Creator/Producer/Writer)
Myra Boone (Pilot Producer/AD)
Jessica King (Director)
Christian Mejia (Cinematographer)
Alistair Slaughter (Sound Engineer)
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SOUL
Movie + 2 extras
Mini documentary from Jibril Washington now streaming on OTV.
A mini documentary focused on Dr. Rhoda Moise, a black female scientist, artist, & Egyptian yoga instructor. Her dream? Community health. She brings soul to science.
Rhoda grew up with immigrant parents from Haiti and found a passion...
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Drive Slow
Movie + 1 extra
"Drive Slow", follows a teenager from the South-Side of Chicago attempting to finish his college essays. As he struggles to boil down his complex surroundings in 500 words, his friends' disparate opinions, racist news narratives, and the threat of lingering danger only complicate the process.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Manifesting Legacy
2 seasons
We’re teaming up with our friends over at lululemon to uplift Black filmmakers through the month of February. Each week, join OTV’s co-founder and Executive Director, Elijah McKinnon, as they shine a spotlight on filmmakers using storytelling to cultivate a culture of health and wellness. Tune in...
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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...