Unfiltered Frequencies: Stories That Heal, Disrupt & Demand Attention

Unfiltered Frequencies: Stories That Heal, Disrupt & Demand Attention

Unfiltered Frequencies: Stories That Heal, Disrupt & Demand Attention — a special playlist on the OTV App featuring films, series, and video art curated by the OTV Governing Body.

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Unfiltered Frequencies: Stories That Heal, Disrupt & Demand Attention
  • 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...

  • Hello Sickness

    Movie

    An American girl living in South Africa to take care of her sickly grandmother creates imaginary friends to cope with her loneliness but when her grandmother dies, her guilt manifests in her friends who quickly become her enemies.

  • 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)
    Set Designer/PA:...

  • Roy Kinsey: BSAYF

    In this music video, Saya Naomi​ is faced with the reality that the person she thought was her friend is not. Through pain and spirituality, she finds true friendship and togetherness with her community. Roy Kinsey plays her intuition, her guide from shadow to light.

    // TRACK //

    Apple: https:/...

  • The Dream That Refused Me

    Movie + 2 extras

    The Dream The Refused Me is split across four aesthetically distinct chapters that ties together myths, attitudes, and rituals from across Africa. Powerful and emotionally stirring, a Xhosa poem narrated by Siyabonga Jim creates draws a narrative line between the ancestral specters and incandesce...

  • 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.

  • Let Go and Let God

    Movie

    This film is dedicated to people who are struggling with the grips of depression and wondering if there is a way out. In Let Go and Let God she finds her release through dance. The movement stirs her soul to the point where it brings her back to life and she makes a commitment to live again, to t...

  • 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.

  • Expanding Sanctuary
    Movie + 3 extras

    Expanding Sanctuary

    Movie + 3 extras

    Documentary by Kristal Sotomayor.

    Expanding Sanctuary covers the ordinary, extraordinary transformation of an immigrant worker, who yearns for her mother's presence at the dawn of her new marriage and new life. In her quest to bring her mother to the United States, what begins as a perfunctory ...

  • SIN-SFO
    Movie + 1 extra

    SIN-SFO

    Movie + 1 extra

    As they drive to San Francisco, married couple Angie and Danny debate a decision which will change their lives forever.

  • MANIFOLD
    Movie + 5 extras

    MANIFOLD

    Movie + 5 extras

    Series premieres on OTV on November 17th.

    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 ...

  • Country Love

    Movie

    Short film by Wapah Ezeigwe now streaming on OTV.

    A queer man returns home after 15 years only to discover that there is no reason for him to stay.

  • 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...

  • How to L0ve

    1 season

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

  • Born & Raised

    1 season

    Set in the gentrifying neighborhood of Logan Square, Chicago, the series offers intimate portraits of a community exploring their own expressions of Latinidad, while struggling with change, displacement, and resistance.

  • Tiny Laughs

    1 season

    When a queer Latina architect meets a struggling Asian comic who’s just come out...as unemployed, their instant spark sends them on a humorous and heartwarming journey through the city of dreams.

  • These Thems

    1 season

    "These Thems" is an award-winning comedy series following the lives of four friends as they navigate gender, sexuality, and the delightful messiness of New York City's queer community.

  • Southern For Pussy

    Movie

    Over a long weekend, a mother and daughter discuss thinning vaginal walls and humiliate a handsome stranger.

    // CAST //

    Moxi // Zackary Drucker
    Patti // Penny Sori
    Jack // Geoffery Milam

    // CREW //

    Starring & Written by Zackary Drucker and Penny Sori
    Director // Zackary Drucker
    Cinematographe...

  • Hunt's Trading Post

    Movie

    Located in Southern Utah, just outside of the Navajo and Ute Nations, Hunt’s Trading Post is an irreplaceable gem and third space operated by the charismatic Wayne Day, an enrolled Navajo Nation citizen. Hunt’s carries on the multi-generational legacy of the Days and the Hunts — two family lineag...

  • 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.

  • America 1979

    Movie

    The Iran Hostage Crisis is in full effect, and even though Regina's parents are Iranian, she was raised to be American. When political tensions create problems for her at school, Regina's confusion about her identity causes a crisis at home. Dramatic short by Lila Yomtoob coming to the #OTVAPP Oc...