Drama Shorts

Dramatic shorts in our collection.

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  • Beware of the Leopard

    Guests at an LA party discover a sexual predator in their midst protected by his celebrity status. As they each share their increasingly distressing interactions, we experience their emotional state in surreal interludes.

    "Beware of the Leopard" explores sexual power imbalance in the world of Ho...

  • Bermuda

    On the evening of her 25th birthday, Tomi Adebiyi is surrounded by half-packed suitcases in a frantic attempt to book a one-way ticket to the island of Bermuda. An all too familiar interruption from her hysterical praying mother and proverb reciting uncle serves as a frightening preview for what’...

  • REMENDO

    1ST Zé runs a repair shop where he toils over the dregs and discards of his suburban seaside town. Zé is a black bisexual middle-aged man looking for love, and facing down the traumas of colonialism to find a new kind of freedom. But can he learn to mend his relationship with himself? |

    2ND Bra...

  • Compromise

    Three siblings with no parental support walk down their own road of destruction.

  • Introducing Wonder of #Futurewomen

    Open TV has been documenting the development of Honey Pot Performance's next dance-theater work, "Ma(s)king Her," which explores black super-heroines who must survive oppressive environs.

    All of the characters have been developed with the help of artists and community members in open workshops a...

  • Drive Slow

    "Drive Slow", follows a teenager from the South-Side of Chicago attempting to finish his college essays. As he struggles to boil down his complex surroundings in 500 words, his friends' disparate opinions, racist news narratives, and the threat of lingering danger only complicate the process.

  • Something Like Intimacy

    Created by Grecia Aguilar.
    A timid woman attends a costume party and rediscovers true intimacy in ways she doesn't expect.

  • JADE

    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...