Exclusive: The Chicago-based artist incubator Otv Studio has rebranded as Breaking Light Studio.
This new iteration of the nonprofit established in 2015 is launching with the support of The Matrix franchise’s Lilly Wachowski, who will serve as a creative advisor and strategic partner, as well as Wachowski’s longtime team at the production and management company Circle of Confusion, which will team with Breaking Light to co-produce select projects.
Breaking Light Studio will look to support intersectional storytellers in developing their projects and achieving their career goals, up to and including selling projects and landing jobs in the film and television industry. Each artist supported by the incubator is intersectional, meaning they hold more than one historically marginalized identity.
The studio’s new name is partly inspired by a poem by Chicago native and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks. “The themes of the need for expression coupled with resistance in...
This new iteration of the nonprofit established in 2015 is launching with the support of The Matrix franchise’s Lilly Wachowski, who will serve as a creative advisor and strategic partner, as well as Wachowski’s longtime team at the production and management company Circle of Confusion, which will team with Breaking Light to co-produce select projects.
Breaking Light Studio will look to support intersectional storytellers in developing their projects and achieving their career goals, up to and including selling projects and landing jobs in the film and television industry. Each artist supported by the incubator is intersectional, meaning they hold more than one historically marginalized identity.
The studio’s new name is partly inspired by a poem by Chicago native and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks. “The themes of the need for expression coupled with resistance in...
- 11/1/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Lilly Wachowski, who is best known for the original groundbreaking Matrix franchise, is teaming with IP incubator Otv Studio as a key partner in their work to create career paths for intersectional film and television creatives.
Every artist under the Otv Studio umbrella are intersectional, meaning they hold more than one historically marginalized identity.
“As a queer trans woman, I am acutely aware of the multitude of forces seen and unseen that have kept me on this Earth,” said Wachowski. “The folks that kept me afloat with their support and love. The artists that inspired me and the women, queer and trans folks that carved out paths that I could follow. I want to be that for other folks: trans and non binary folks, queer folks, Black and Brown folks.”
“Lilly approached me early in our company’s development with the desire to collaborate to uplift LGBTQ+ and Bipoc creators,...
Every artist under the Otv Studio umbrella are intersectional, meaning they hold more than one historically marginalized identity.
“As a queer trans woman, I am acutely aware of the multitude of forces seen and unseen that have kept me on this Earth,” said Wachowski. “The folks that kept me afloat with their support and love. The artists that inspired me and the women, queer and trans folks that carved out paths that I could follow. I want to be that for other folks: trans and non binary folks, queer folks, Black and Brown folks.”
“Lilly approached me early in our company’s development with the desire to collaborate to uplift LGBTQ+ and Bipoc creators,...
- 3/9/2021
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
4 days left to go in the campaign; it's an Indiegogo effort, so the filmmaker keeps whatever is raised (minus Indiegogo's fee of course), unlike Kickstarter, which is an all-or-nothing venture. So contribute if the project intrigues you, and you'd like to see it become a reality. *** I do not even know all their names. Black women’s deaths are not noteworthy, not threatening or glamorous enough to decorate the evening news… -Audre Lorde in Need: A Chorale for Black Woman Voices. This apt observation mirrors filmmaker Stephanie Jeter’s own catalytic moment which gave rise to her short film "Searching for Isabelle." Several years ago she started to write these thoughts out in...
- 11/10/2015
- by Shadow And Act
- ShadowAndAct
I do not even know all their names. Black women’s deaths are not noteworthy, not threatening or glamorous enough to decorate the evening news… -Audre Lorde in Need: A Chorale for Black Woman Voices. This apt observation mirrors filmmaker Stephanie Jeter’s own catalytic moment which gave rise to her short film "Searching for Isabelle." Several years ago she started to write these thoughts out in the form of a novel, using the uncanny as an approach to the subject. What if there was a black woman who refused to be ignored during her most vulnerable and traumatic moments? What if she had the power to make herself seen and felt by a populous that would otherwise be uncaring either...
- 10/26/2015
- by Shadow And Act
- ShadowAndAct
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