#BraveFutures Collection
8 Seasons
#BraveFutures is an intersectional film competition and program brought to you by award-winning streaming platform and media incubator Open Television (OTV), challenging filmmakers of all skill levels to create an entire short film in a constrained amount of time using their city as the canvas.
Since the programs launch in 2019, Brave Futures has empowered over 100 artists, across six countries and three continents to develop 24 intersectional short-films (3-7 minutes) exploring topics on gender, immigration, body-positivity, feminism, trans politics, race, sexuality, mental health and more.
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04:01Episode 1Safe Outside
Episode 1
Team Name: RETRO GAZE (Phiola Tesi Kayumba, Monthati Masebe, Khanyisile Peterson, Keza Cynthia R William, Neo R Paulus)
Film Synopsis: A 24 year old has internalised the shame imposed on her about her sexuality. A 15 year old is settled in her expression of love. The moment in which they collid...
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06:48Episode 2Nanobot Meets Siren
Episode 2
A NANOBOT discovers a siren and introduces her their world and vice versa. New worlds.
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Team Name: SEI SIREN PRESENTS (Motsei Rangata, Janice Phiri, Amber Welkom, Chipego Mwiinga, Naledi de Wee, MWANJI THE WNDRKD)
Brave Futures Film Race is an intersectional competit...
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03:30Episode 3On Photography
Episode 3
An experimental film looking at the history of photography and the personal archive.
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Team Name: Mulberry Sunshine (Mela Khumalo and Lesole, Tauatswala)
Brave Futures Film Race is an intersectional competition that challenges creatives, storytellers filmmakers of...
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Correc
Episode 4
An exploration of a visibly feminine queer boy whose existence is threatened by men, both queer and not, both closeted and open. He endures life with its tribulations and as they come but everything changes when a man, a stranger, a friend, a brother or a lover chooses to attempt to violate him b...
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06:22Episode 5For everything there is a master key
Episode 5
Exploring asexuality through lived experience.
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Team Name: Kamvehle (Brandon Ntuli)Brave Futures Film Race is an intersectional competition that challenges creatives, storytellers filmmakers of all levels to create an entire short film in 48 hours using one intersect...
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06:28Episode 6Sable Chameleon
Episode 6
Having drifted away from her boyfriend of six months, Lotus boils it down to the fact that she's longing for something more - but does not know what exactly. Lotus shows her liberation through challenging the stereotypes and we see her 'ascend' from a space where she was once dazed and confused t...