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  • Wake Up, Jaleela

    Movie

    Wake Up, Jaleela is a short film about a girl trapped in a nightmare determined to wake up. In order to escape the dream, she embarks on a journey that challenges her to reasses the waking world.

  • MANIFOLD
    Movie + 5 extras

    MANIFOLD

    Movie + 5 extras

    Manifold is an experimental anthology docuseries exploring the nuances of Black and Queer identity. This collaborative production platforms the creative works and visions of poets, performers, organizers, musicians, and more -- to express the real life experiences of Chicago’s Black LGBTQ+ commun...

  • Fear Rules This Forest

    Movie

    In a forest that turns all of its inhabitants into trees, two sisters and their grandmother have eked out a means for survival. But, one sister yearns for more.

  • Club Chicago Television (CCTV)

    1 season

    Club Chicago Television, or CCTV

    A network where you can tune into a different queer club night every week.

    Over the summer of 2020, CCTV aimed to broadcast Chicago parties, DJs, performers, and organizations that are leading and shaping the way to a brighter future in Chicago. Each broadcast f...

  • How to L0ve - Season 1

    8 Episodes

    How to L0ve is a comedic web series that follows a group of teenagers who reunite to work as ball people at their community’s local tennis tournament.

  • 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 ...

  • The Briana Clearly Collection

    7 items

    A series of short films, music videos, and interviews from Chicago-based director, screenwriter, and self-published author Briana Clearly.

    Briana Clearly’s focus as a filmmaker is to tell Black Womxn stories. She believes in Black Womxn and other marginalized people owning their own narratives,...

  • Uneverything - Season 1

    2 Episodes

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

  • Drive Slow
    Movie + 1 extra

    Drive Slow

    Movie + 1 extra

    "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.

  • 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.

  • Feeling Experimental

    Need a break from conventions? Check out these Avant selects from OTV's collection.

  • Berlin, Germany (2020)

    6 Episodes

    During the largest film festival to enter Berlin, OTV - Open Television teamed up with DADDY to take over Moviemento, the oldest cinema in the city to screen six new short-films created by over two dozen Berlin-based intersectional artists for the #BraveFuturesFilmRace.

    Borrowing elements found...

  • Filmmaking While Femme Roundtable Talk

    Movie + 1 extra

    This International Women's Day join women and femme-filmmakers Ashley O'Shay, Elena Valentine, Stephanie Jeter, and host, Sarah Minnie as they discuss their journeys in the film industry, how they have thrived over the years, challenges they've overcome, and more.

  • Kissing Walls

    2 seasons

    Kissing Walls is a romantic comedy that follows two friends as they struggle to build their careers while simultaneously navigating the ever-evolving and often complicated “new rules” of 21st century dating as queer men of color.

  • You're So Talented - Season 1

    7 Episodes

    Bea is an out of work Chicago artist in her twenties, navigating its inevitable dramas.

  • Family Means Nobody Gets Left Behind

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

  • Catch Desire

    1 season

    The CATCH DESIRE VISUAL EP is written and performed by Chicago-based OBGYN and rapper, Dr. Every Woman (aka Wendy Mcdonald), as well as appearances by local influencers, such as recording artist and model Syren, advocate and actor Damon Williams, choreographer and stylist Darling Shear, and danc...

  • 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 ...

  • Karla Huffman - Season 1

    4 Episodes

  • Conspiracy Theorist

    1 season

    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...

  • Sweaty Scales
    Movie + 1 extra

    Sweaty Scales

    Movie + 1 extra

    Sweaty Scales created by Liang Luscombe

    In a world akin to the surreal vignettes of Peewee’s Playhouse, Sweaty Scales takes us through a series of portals to tell the story of a pair of lovers. Asian American advertising art director Lisa meets Oliver at his 30th birthday party in which he seduc...

  • Futurewomen - Season 1

    3 Episodes

    Futurewomen is an alternate reality series about the creation of black superheroines!

  • The Right Swipe

    1 season

    When best friends India and Margo team up to start the Right Swipe, a business fixing men’s dating profiles, they have only three rules:

    One: They must use their powers for good. Two: They charge on a sliding scale. Three: They can’t sleep with their clients. Or date them. Or flirt with them.

    U...

  • Yogma - Season 1

    3 Episodes

    Karla, is a young smart yoga instructor with dreams of becoming a celebrity in the culture.