Family Means Nobody Gets Left Behind

Family Means Nobody Gets Left Behind

Center yourself with this collection of programs that reimagines what it means to be "family."

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  • Glimpses of Existence

    Movie

    Experimental/documentary short film by Francis DiClemente drops March 1, 2023.

    Glimpses of Existence is an experimental/documentary short film in the form of video collage. Using poetry and scenes captured with an iPhone—both before and during the pandemic—the film attempts to find meaning in t...

  • Grandpa Ernest Speaks

    Movie + 1 extra

    Short film by Madeleine Bazil now streaming on OTV.

    In 1939, a young Jewish man named Ernest Lowy makes a bold and narrow escape from his native Czechoslovakia, seeking safety and opportunity for his family as World War II intensifies. In the late 1980s, an elderly Ernest recounts his life story...

  • GOOD ENOUGH

    2 seasons

    Attempting to hold their family together, the YGQ learns how to love and accept themselves as they navigate secret hook-ups, mental-crises and a series of scandalous shenanigans. But as the tight-knit clique attempts to heal from previous traumas they must collectively face the consequences that ...

  • Safe Outside

    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...

  • Dickes Fell (Thick Skin)

    Das Leben lehrt uns: „Du brauchst ein dickes Fell, wenn du überleben willst!“ Jeder Nieder-/Schlag, eine weitere Schicht. Je dicker, desto safer. Doch was ist, wenn ich nicht nur überleben will? Wenn das Fell zu schwer, der Schutz zur Last wird, und der Drang nach Ich-Sein schreit. Wo kann ich na...

  • The North Pole

    2 seasons

    Best friends Nina, Marcus, and Benny love to let anyone and everyone know that they were born and raised in North Oakland, CA - better known to locals as 'The North Pole.' As their long-time neighborhood changes into a hostile environment, the three friends fight, dream, and plot hilarious scheme...

  • Sable Chameleon

    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...

  • Granny Ballers

    1 season

    The story of a group of older women who enter a basketball tournament to win prize money to pay off their friend’s defaulted mortgage and save her from eviction.

  • SEEDS
    1 season

    SEEDS

    1 season

    Centered around the friendship of four college-aged girls, Seeds is a bold and dynamic narrative that explores the conversations between them through a hilariously authentic lens.

  • Hook Ups
    1 season

    Hook Ups

    1 season

    Black queers date and fall in lust.

  • 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.

  • Seven of Tentacles

    Team Name: OKTOPUS (Melanie Lyn, Lydia Sarges, Miriam Chebaibai Koch, Sarah Mounia Kachiri, Elsa Klée, Aureille, Klara Mohammadi)

    Film Synopsis: The Oktopus can rapidly alter its shape and colour to adapt to any situation, communicate emotions or escape from danger. When self care becomes syn...

  • For Better

    1 season

    For Better is the romantic dramedy reinvented. An anthology series; each episode focuses on a different couple in their slice of life.

  • Conspiracy Theorist

    Renee Hawthorne is a competitive doctoral candidate in neuropsychology when her life is unexpectedly derailed by a psychotic spell.

    Created by: Rebba Moore
    Co-Director & DP: Kelechi Agwuncha;
    1st Editor: Marcus Aubin;
    2nd Editor: Rebba Amaris;

    1st Cam: Lowell Thomas;
    2nd Cam & Gaffer: Luis T...

  • Code-Switched

    1 season

    Code-Switched follows the interconnected lives of five South Asian-American friends trying to blaze their own trails in a world of fleeting relationships, high-expectations, and gentrified workplaces. Messy and constantly in a state of feeling “in-between,” the squad of Zara, Rahul, Priya, Joe, a...

  • You're So Talented

    2 seasons

    You're So Talented is a series following Bea, an out of work Chicago actor, as she navigates her twenties and all of its inevitable dramas.

  • BRUJOS
    2 seasons

    BRUJOS

    2 seasons

    BRUJOS is a queer-of-color, radically politicized web series following four gay Latino doctoral candidates--that are also witches. They navigate magic, sexuality, and surviving a witch-hunt led by a secret society of white heteronormative male descendants of the first New World colonizers.

    Serie...

  • F*ck Stan
    1 season

    F*ck Stan

    1 season

    What happens when you try to f*ck with a f*ckboi? Follow three women as they find out their target is much more than originally thought.

  • Symbiotic
    1 season

    Symbiotic

    1 season

    Series created by Rachel Greenhoe about young queer people with invisible (and visible) disabilities trying to make their way in Chicago.

  • Damaged Goods

    1 season

    Barely surviving the city of Chicago, Damaged Goods centers around four messy young adults will experience a complete loss of self-identity, which propels them onto a path of uncertainty.

  • Geeta's Guide to Moving On

    1 season

    Geeta Gidwani is an all-American girl hopelessly in love with her Indian-American Prince Charming until one day, he dumps her--after 10 years of dating. She's totally heartbroken, moves in with her Indian parents, and learns to move on with the help of her family and her best friend.

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  • The Haven
    1 season

    The Haven

    1 season

    The under-paid staff of a domestic violence shelter grapples with the messiness of their personal lives while trying to help their clients embark on abuse-free futures. A houseful of traumatized and temporarily homeless women—each with their own specific emotional baggage—means nearly constant ch...

  • Choose Me: An Abortion Story

    1 season

    A Chicago-based web series about a single, non-monogamous, queer woman who does not want to be a mother.

  • VELVET
    1 season

    VELVET

    1 season

    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 worlds collide to form a brand new #squad, these five young Chicagoans begin to reevaluate their own identities as well as their...