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  • Sexuality Out Loud - The Dating Edition

    1 season

    Four classmates find themselves on deep dive game show -- equal parts educational and pleasurable for the sake of pleasure. Meanwhile, another student, Kaia, gets some life-changing news. Enter an interactive environment where young people have deeper conversations about sex, sexuality, and repro...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • SOUL
    Movie + 2 extras

    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...

  • Alexa Grae

    2 items

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

  • 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.

  • Whole

    Movie

    Short film by Monty Cole coming to the #OTVAPP October 1st.

    Growing up in the suburbs, 12 year old Brandon Moore feels like he's maybe missing parts of his Blackness. When his friend's aunt accidentally takes him into a part of the city where he's not supposed to go, Brandon discovers that mayb...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Everything is Everything

    Movie + 1 extra

    "Everything is Everything" is a conversational-style documentary that explores the heartfelt commemorations of Juneteenth by Chicago natives during the summer of 2024. This is Kin Marie's sixth film for the Filmmaker's Mixtape Challenge, led by Briana Clearly.

  • Mar de Marisa
    Movie + 1 extra

    Mar de Marisa

    Movie + 1 extra

    Dramatic mystery by Gabi Morbeck.

    Marisa, after waking up to a call from her mother, finds herself immersed in introspection amidst mysterious events. She is startled by a strange sound of the sea, something unusual since moving to her husband’s city.

    When Marisa investigates the source of the ...

  • Black Girl Magic

    4 seasons

    Black Girl Magic is a drag show starring a lineup of all black performers. Queens pay tribute to important black women with a diverse showcase that captures the breadth of talents and creativity within black drag community. Tune in LIVE with The Vixen every month!

  • #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.

  • Uneverything

    1 season

    A comedic series following a 37-year old black woman who tries to come to terms with being husband-less, parent-less, childless, and quite possibly terrible at everything.

  • 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...

  • Brown Girls

    1 season

    Brown Girls is an intimate story of the friendship between two women of color. While Leila and Patricia come from completely different backgrounds, their friendship is ultimately what they lean on to get through the messiness of their mid-twenties.

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Opaque

    Movie

    Music video in dystopian future by Midwest-based artist, Finnoh.

    Director - Elise Holowicki
    Producer - Andrea Raby
    DP - Joe Martinez Jr.

  • 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)
    Dru Monta...

  • #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 ...