Take Me to the Queers
Explore OTV's rich, intersectional content through these programs that center LGBTQ+ experiences.
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Nupita Obama Creates Vogua
1 season
Nupita Obama follows queer artists of color as they work to secure love and housing. The pilot, “Nupita Obama Creates Vogua,” launched Open TV (beta)’s (Now known as OTV - Open Television) Open TV Presents series about artists exploring alternative relationships. The first season picks up four we...
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AGENTS OF CHANGE, PROJECT: POLYMER
Movie
"AGENTS OF CHANGE, PROJECT: POLYMER" is a spy-genre film that centers a fully a queer and transgender cast while bringing issues facing the environment to the forefront. Rookie secret agent Guy Longani is on a take-along mission to expose the ringleader of an illegal plastic dumping scheme, but w...
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FORCE! Presents Cadenza Screening with Open Panel Discussion
Movie
Recording of the livestream is available on-demand until 3/16/22.
Cadenza is a musical film about Black women and femmes in the visitors' waiting rooms of a prison. Directed by Anna Martine Whitehead and Wills Glasspiegel, the film extends and documents FORCE!, an opera-in-progress by Whitehead,...
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Forked Tongue
Movie + 1 extra
Short film by Melanie Ojwang now streaming.
After moving back in with her overbearing mom, a recently unemployed 20-something starts creating juicy audio erotica under a male pseudonym and struggles to keep her identity and her hobby a secret when her fanbase explodes.
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Andrew In Anotherland
Movie
A voice bigger than the stage, Andrew Sa has been surprising audiences in small clubs for years but what he has planned for a Millennium Park debut is even larger. As part of the city’s Year of Chicago Music, and the Millennium Park Music Series, CIVL (Chicago Independent Venue League) has invite...
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TRANSFINITE
Movie
TRANSFINITE is a sci-fi omnibus feature film composed of seven standalone short stories where supernatural trans and queer people from various cultures use their powers to protect, love, teach, fight and thrive.
Award-winning TRANSFINITE (2019) has screened worldwide in 80+ festivals and educati...
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Anthology
1 season
Series by Nuanse Entertainment now streaming on OTV.
Anthology is a narrative series that follows the life-altering events of 6 twenty-somethings during one summer in New York City.
CONTENT WARNING: profanity, excessive alcohol use, self-harm, recreational marijuana use, adult themes, death/gri...
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Visibility Sucks!
Movie
Visibility Sucks is a 24-hour glimpse into the life of an artist suffering from a major identity crisis after a global pandemic sends him plummeting from the limelight to working in a grocery store. Shard, the protagonist, takes the viewer on a surreal journey as he tries his best to regain a sen...
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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 ...
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Jake Speikers: Nostalgic
Movie + 1 extra
Still not over a past relationship, a singer looks back on his memories through a VHS tapes to reconcile his nostalgia over lost love.
Production Company: Bouy Flms (@bouyfilms)
Dir/Dp/Editor: Ricardo Bouyett (@ricbouy)
Line Producer/Production Designer: Daisy Cardenas (@DaysDC)
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Pink & Blue
Movie + 1 extra
Creator, Executive Producer, Writer, and Actor: Kaydx. Director and Executive Producer: Carmen LoBue. Executive Producer: Silas Howard.
Starring: Kaydx and Jojo Brown.Lenapehoking (Brooklyn). Present day. CREA MADDEN (Kaydx), a Genderfluid freelance artist and their partner of four years ARM...
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Jack and Anna
Movie + 1 extra
Sapphic period drama by Ksenia Naughton.
Based on true events from the early 1900s, Jack and Anna tells the story of a young couple whose happy life on their farm is suddenly shattered when Jack’s biggest secret is revealed: the fact that he is a woman named Helen. After the revelation, Helen is...
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Across, Beyond, and Over
Movie
A hybrid documentary about two estranged trans men who used to date in middle school reconnecting over a long weekend to develop a film about their past. Through the pre-production process and writing exercises, they are forced to reconcile the differences in how they want to portray themselves, ...
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Bros Before
Movie
A campy sexy comedy about a trans man's gay awakening created by Henry Hanson.
Elijah and Billy are two trans bros who just happen to enjoy jerking off together -- in a straight way! But when Billy starts dating a woman -- the intimidating, sharp-tongued Grace -- Elijah must come to terms with ...
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This Physical World
Movie
Experimental narrative by Leo Kinsler.
When Sey wakes up for the first time as a fully formed adult, they venture out into the world in search of what it means to be a person.
Through performance and play, this film examines how language, personal experiences, and gender expectations shape our ... -
Rough River Lake
Movie + 1 extra
A weekend “Gaycation” is interrupted when a group of Queer best friends discover their lake house got double booked with a fratty bachelor party. An ensemble comedy about party fouls and Queerness in the South.
Indianapolis LGBTQ Film Festival
London International Short Film Festival
Short Film ...