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  • 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...

  • 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...

  • A Sweetness of Lapse

    Movie

    When best friends, Ava & Mina, are introduced to the internet phenomenon of “timeline shifting”, they decide to try it one night. The result tests their friendship and grasp of reality. Short fantasy drama created by Bashir Aden.

  • Handsome
    1 season

    Handsome

    1 season

    Series by Devon Kane coming to the #OTVAPP October 1st.

    After leaving a 10-year relationship, Devon has to navigate through a dating scene he knows nothing about - getting up to speed with things like dating apps, OnlyFans and being called DADDY, to name a few. When Devon meets Gabriel however,...

  • Starving Artists

    1 season

    Chicago comedy duo Aasia and Dewayne go to extravagant lengths to reach their goals of international stardom and complete world domination. A show about being young, gifted, and black in a world that praises straight, white, and wack.

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • VELVET
    1 season

    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 ...

  • Brothers from the Suburbs

    1 season

    Brothers from the Suburbs is a short-form digital comedy series that chronicles the highs and lows of three awkward black teens coming of age in a predominantly white, suburban, private school environment.

    Series by Patrick Wimp.

  • 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 ...

  • Yogma
    2 seasons

    Yogma

    2 seasons

    Karla, is a young smart yoga instructor with dreams of becoming a celebrity in the culture. Her starry eyes and optimism are met with conflict, confusion, and trouble in her rise to the top. She and her best friend Pasqual devise a plan for becoming the hottest thing on the yoga scene when they l...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Swimming the Psalms of Seas

    Movie

    Film created by Reggie Davis coming March 1, 2024.

    The movies we watch and the music we listen to have an undeniable effect on our state of mind. And so why not harness the influential power of cinema by watching movies with inspiring social and mindfulness rich content. That stimulates the pro...

  • #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 ...

  • Opaque

    Movie

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

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

  • Blaq In Bed

    2 seasons

    Come with questions and leave with answers. Blaq In Bed has been intentionally designed to provide folks with tips, resources and bravery needed to navigate complex spaces and discussions around intimacy, sex, disclosure and the fantasy.

  • The First 30 Days

    Movie

    Dramatic-comedy by Skylar Rochon.

    “The First 30 Days” is a dramatic-comedy about 3 early 20-something black girls, S.J, Penny, and Iman, who make the move to NYC together after only meeting online. After 30 days in NYC, the trio is invited to a pre-game by a group of strangers, where the typical...

  • Choc
    Movie

    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...

  • 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.

  • JADE
    Movie + 1 extra

    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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...