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JADE
Movie + 1 extra
When Jade 'clashes' (read: is on the receiving end of racist behavior) with yet another teacher, her high school guidance counselor demands that she see the new school therapist. Having had terrible experiences in the past, she is very skeptical, even with her big brother's words of encouragement...
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Anthology - Season 1
8 Episodes
Anthology is a narrative series that follows the life-altering events of 6 twenty-somethings during one summer in New York City.
The series offers an alternative for audiences who are tired of watching the struggling-millennial-New-York-ensemble trope omit people of color. In place of a traditio...
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Viceroy
Movie + 1 extra
Short film by Ashley Denise now streaming on OTV.
Viceroy follows the story of two estranged half-brothers thrown into each other's lives after the death of their father. Set in Brooklyn, with elements of a modern-day Western, this coming-of-age tale explores the journey of two people in search ...
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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...
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The Exorcism of Mary Magdalene: A Divine Intervention
Movie
The Exorcism of Mary Magdalene: A Divine Intervention is an exploration of belonging, through a liminal state of placelessness. Through the iconography of Mary Magdalene and their narrative contextualities, I resurrect the archival yet contemporary transgenerational reckonings & beckoning's of di...
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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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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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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
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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 ...
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THANDO
Movie + 1 extra
After Reza, a non-binary rising performing artist from a township in Soweto, begins to settle into Johannesburg when Mase, a writer struggling to understand his identity, unexpectedly arrives into his life. Through their brief introduction they suddenly begin to reveal intimate vulnerabilities th...
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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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Beside Myself
1 season
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 ...
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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
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#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...