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  • Anthology
    1 season

    Anthology

    1 season

    Series by Nuanse Entertainment now streaming on OTV.

    Anthology is a narrative series that follows the life-altering events of 6 twenty-somethings during one summer in New York City.

    CONTENT WARNING: profanity, excessive alcohol use, self-harm, recreational marijuana use, adult themes, death/gri...

  • 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...

  • Low Strung
    2 seasons

    Low Strung

    2 seasons

    Season 2 now streaming on OTV.

    Shervin and Victoria experience a number of mini-adventures smattered with elements of the surreal, often blurring the lines themselves using mind-altering drugs. This lends a fresh, satirical, and often perplexing way for the viewer to vicariously experience tind...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • #BraveFuturesJOBURG

    7 items

    Brave Futures Film Race challenges creatives, filmmakers and storytellers of all skills levels to produce a film in 48 hours or less.

  • 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...

  • Craft Service

    2 seasons

    Welcome to Craft Service.

    A talk show experience that shares recipes for nourishment, recipes for success, spells, and stories

    I believe that with imagination, play, and application, we can create the world that we want to see.

    If you believe this too this is the show for you!

    If you don't b...

  • Club Chicago Television (CCTV)

    1 season

    Club Chicago Television, or CCTV

    A network where you can tune into a different queer club night every week.

    Over the summer of 2020, CCTV aimed to broadcast Chicago parties, DJs, performers, and organizations that are leading and shaping the way to a brighter future in Chicago. Each broadcast f...

  • THANDO
    Movie + 1 extra

    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...

  • SWITCHIN'

    Movie

    Short film by George Ellzey Jr. now streaming on OTV.

    Language is the building block of every civilization which shapes culture, identity, and community. Accompanied by contemporary dancer, Deja Hood, SWITCHIN' explores African American communication habits and the policing of said language for ...

  • Inertia

    Movie

    Inertia is a visual musical experience by Brandon Markell Holmes. An exploration of black thought, existence & trauma ; through the lens of [MODERN Technological Narcissism]&[The Civil Rights Movement] - into the premature journey of Black JOY , acceptance, Existential tyranny , Religion , Binary...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Night Night

    1 season

    A recovering alcoholic gets blackmailed into contract killing to save his family from scandal, shaking his hold over his sobriety and his life in general.

  • 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...