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#OTVLIVE: Queers Got Talent
Queers Got Talent, created and hosted by Devin Niecy, is empowering and promoting creative expression in the LGBTQ+ community while showcasing their talents to the world. The talent show is set to a DJ Dapper soundtrack and includes queer icons Marquise Vilson, B Hawk Snipes, and J Mase III as ju...
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1 seasonVELVET
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...
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1 seasonUneverything
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.
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Manifesting Legacy w/ Zola Makeda
Manifesting Legacy is series powered by lululemon that shines a light on Black filmmakers creating space to tell revolutionary stories.
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Manifesting Legacy w/ Briana Clearly
Manifesting Legacy is series powered by lululemon that shines a light on Black filmmakers creating space to tell revolutionary stories.
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1 seasonSEEDS
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.
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Inertia
Inertia is a visual musical experience by Brandon Markell Holmes. An exploration of black thought, existence & trauma ; through the lens of [MODERN Technological Narcissism]&[The Civil Rights Movement] - into the premature journey of Black JOY , acceptance, Existential tyranny , Religion , Binary...
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3 seasonsFuturewomen
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 ...
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Let Go and Let God
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...
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Lipstick City by Shea Couleé
In the world of Lipstick City Miss Couleé and Shea exact revenge on Miss Couleé's unfaithful husband.
// CAST //
Mrs. Couleé // Shea Couleé
Shea // Shea Couleé
Chic // Kim Chi
Chic's Henchwoman // Lucy Stoole
Seductress // Valentine Addams
Mistress // Sara Andrews
Chaffeur // Trannika Rex
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Molasses: The Drip
Watch what happens when a group of Black trans and non-binary people get hooked on Molasses. Starring originally music by BoneReader, Zola Makeda, and Cae Monae along with vignettes of Molasses Chicago members at an impressive location.
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Kiki 4 The Qulture
Kiki 4 The Qulture was produced by A Queer Pride, a collection of seasoned professionals from Chicago's nightlife landscape, working together to celebrate Pride throughout the year. A Queer Pride is Abhijeet, Bambi Banks-Couleé, JForPay and Scott Cramer.
Kiki 4 The Qulture is an intergeneration...
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4theQultureFEST - DAY ONE: THE PAST (6/26)
#4theQultureFEST is a 3-day virtual experience celebrating the past, present and future of Pride! Take a journey with us this evening as we honor the past of pride with a special DJ set by Audio Jack, a pop-up performance by THAIR, satirical stunts by the Unfriendly Black Hotties and experimental...
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4theQultureFEST - DAY THREE: THE FUTURE (6/28)
#4theQultureFEST is a 3-day virtual experience celebrating the past, present and future of Pride! We made it to future! Get wavy with Jenna Anast and Elijah McKinnon as they channel the Wakanda Sunrise with a special DJ set by Selah Say, a pop-up performance by AVERY R. YOUNG, experimental moment...
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4theQultureFEST - DAY TWO: THE PRESENT (6/27)
#4theQultureFEST is a 3-day virtual experience celebrating the past, present and future of Pride! Take a ride with Jenna Anast and Elijah McKinnon as they reflect on the Present with a special DJ set by Duane Powell, a pop-up performance by THEE DAVID DAVIS, laughable skits by the hilarious Tribb...
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1 seasonNight Night
1 season
A recovering alcoholic gets blackmailed into contract killing to save his family from scandal, shaking his hold over his sobriety and his life in general.
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1 seasonDamaged 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.
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1 seasonNupita 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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2 seasonsLow Strung
2 seasons
Season 2 now streaming on OTV.
Shervin and Victoria experience a number of mini-adventures smattered with elements of the surreal, often blurring the lines themselves using mind-altering drugs. This lends a fresh, satirical, and often perplexing way for the viewer to vicariously experience tind...
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1 seasonBrown 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.
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ambivert, with audio description
A meditation in manic visuals and ethereal sounds. Transmuting energy from chronic pain, anxiety, and lethargy into thrusting sexual freedom, joy, anger, empathy for self and communities of color.
BY Ester Alegria
Audio description directed by Kevin Gotkin, New York University.
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Quare Life - Pilot
Four queer women of color negotiate professional and personal relationships on Chicago's south side.
//CAST AND CREW//
M Shelly Conner (Creator/Producer/Writer)
Myra Boone (Pilot Producer/AD)
Jessica King (Director)
Christian Mejia (Cinematographer)
Alistair Slaughter (Sound Engineer)
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Hair Story - Pilot Concept
In Hair Story, a pilot for Serial Dreamer, residents of an artsy Black co-op tell their wild stories to an out-of-work drag queen as she styles their hair to pay her rent.
// MUSIC VIDEO / DREAM SEQUENCE //
WATCH THE FULL VIDEO: http://www.weareo.tv/presents/bsayf
Apple: https://itunes.apple....
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Sur La Nuit
A soliloquy to the night, reflecting on love, loss, and identity. presented thru the lens of otherness - queer identity, race, familial dynamics, gender, and access into classical art forms.
//CAST & CREW//
ALEXA GRÆ - Artist/Composer
Jon Wes - Creator/Videographer/Editor
Matthew Ozawa - Creat...
