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  • Drive Slow
    Movie + 1 extra

    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.

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Darling Shear

    2 seasons

    Darling Shear: Season 2 is now streaming!

    Darling Shear, is a two-season 14-episode docu-series by Diana Quiñones Rivera, that follows Darling Shear as she choreographs a piece for 6 dancers rooted in the tradition of Hollywood musicals. Through rehearsals, everyday life, and performances, Darli...

  • #OTVLIVE
    6 seasons

    #OTVLIVE

    6 seasons

    #OTVLIVE is our channel on the OTV App that features LIVE-to-tape programming from artists, activists and more. Each LIVE-to-tape broadcast features a uniquely designed program that engages audiences through news or information, education or how-tos, experimental, talk show and performance (theat...

  • 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.

  • You're So Talented

    2 seasons

    You're So Talented is a series following Bea, an out of work Chicago actor, as she navigates her twenties and all of its inevitable dramas.

  • If I Was Your Girl - Collection

    2 seasons

    A collection of films and series in the If I Was Your Girl universe by Coquie Hughes.

    IF I WAS YOUR GIRL is an intense pressure cooker drama centered on the chaotic affair between two interrelated lesbian couples. The story first chronicles the mentally draining relationship between Lynn and St...

  • 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.

  • Black Queer Futures

    Movie

    Poetry Narrative by Femi Adebowale.

    Black Queer Futures asks the question of what young Black Queer people could be if they had access to limitless inspiration. Through Simi, we see the power of showing young Black Queer people that they have infinite possibility and power in who they want to be.

  • 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.

  • J Bambii: CHAOS
    Movie + 1 extra

    J Bambii: CHAOS

    Movie + 1 extra

    Produced by Brain Studios in Association with Birchman Productions

    “CHAOS” centers the life of Young Jasmine, a high school junior grappling with the complexities of love, identity, and societal pressures such as colorism, fat-phobia and desirability politics at a young age. The video
    is divided...

  • #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 ...

  • Lipstick City
    Movie + 1 extra

    Lipstick City

    Movie + 1 extra

    A visually sumptuous exploration of the drag persona of model Shea Couleé, this short film is an arresting display of dance, music, and fashion. When high end fashion model Miss Couleé discovers evidence that her powerful husband, Mr., isn't the faithful man she thought she married, she teams up ...

  • 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!

  • Bronx Cunt Tour - Season 1

    5 Episodes

    Right on the wings of the super successful debut of Lil Blk in Chicago, Nic Kay takes the solo performance Lil Blk on the road in the Bronx Cunt Tour Series.

    Lil Blk is an experimental solo performance. Influenced by New York City gay/queer ballroom culture, live punk shows, butoh, and praise d...

  • 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...

  • Alexa Grae

    2 items

    A collection of films and video art by musical artist Alexa Grae.

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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.

  • BOSOM

    Movie

    Short drama by George Ellzey Jr.

    CONTENT WARNING: Alluded physical violence and strobing lights.

    Life forces one to confront their deepest wounds and the person who impaired them in unexpected times and fashion. Bosom is a dramatic short set in one location with two characters and years of unr...

  • Hello Sickness

    Movie

    An American girl living in South Africa to take care of her sickly grandmother creates imaginary friends to cope with her loneliness but when her grandmother dies, her guilt manifests in her friends who quickly become her enemies.