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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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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...
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Mason
Movie
Horror film written and directed by Sharena Sigmon, produced by Angellic Ross.
A Black pregnant woman fears her vicious dreams predict her and her unborn child's untimely demise.
Official selection for the Chicago Horror Film Festival where it won Best Chicago Director and Best Actress
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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...
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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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VELVET
1 season
VELVET is co-created by Allie Dunn, Leo Gilbert, Dru Greenwood, Tyla Landry, Sydney Levison, Clifton Lyons, and Becky Schultz.
When Demetra, a competitive professional, is forced to reevaluate her social life, she strikes up a friendship with Cymone, her seemingly much cooler coworker. As their ...
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JustLatasha's Inner Actions
1 season
A sketch comedy series from a Black Bi woman's sense by 2022 #OTVFellow Latasha Mercer.
"Latasha" is not essentially real; she's a universally different character in each sketch, however all named Latasha. The series grabs her PoV on queerness, dating, and Black culture spoofs as a Black Bi wom...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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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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Reality Is Not Good Enough
Movie + 1 extra
Experimental comedy-drama, Reality Is Not Good Enough (2021), coming March 1, 2024.
Reality Is Not Good Enough is created by Rashayla Marie Brown.Reality Is Not Good Enough is a sensitive and humorous tribute to the director’s mother, who dreamed of being a reality TV star, no matter how expl...
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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...
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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...
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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.