OVID.tv Co-founder Jonathan Miller

In a media environment dominated by increasingly concentrated corporate interests, a growing group of distribution companies who have long championed the best in independent features, documentaries, and social issue films, have joined forces to help launch an innovative subscription streaming service, OVID.tvOVID.tv is an innovative subscription video-on-demand service launched with a collaborative effort between Docuseek, LLC and eight founding content partners. Today OVID works with thirty content partners from around the world. OVID.tv includes titles from 30 different film distribution companies, most of which  you can explore on Ovid.tv’s Content Partners page. Examples include Bullfrog Films, The dGenerate Films Collection, Distrib Films US, First Run Features, Grasshopper Film, Icarus Films, KimStim, The British Film Institute, and Women Make Movies. Most of the films on OVID.tv are not available on any other streaming platform, and OVID.tv will be adding even more films every week. Despite the odds and with little capital, Icarus Films, Docuseek, and our partners have decided that the time has come to step forward and build a new, independent space, dedicated to the films that we believe in and care about, and that we believe you care about, and value as well. September spotlight on award-winning Chilean  filmmaker Ignacio Agüero with 11 of his acclaimed documentaries including 100 Children Waiting for a Train and The Other Day. OVID.tv co-founder Jonathan Miller joins us to talk about an affordable option for film lovers looking for the highest quality cinema experience presented by people who share your passion.

 

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For more on the available films, subscription rates go to: OVID.tv

About OVID: OVID.tv is an innovative subscription video-on-demand service launched with a collaborative effort between Docuseek, LLC and eight founding content partners. Today OVID works with thirty content partners from around the world.  Ovid.tv includes titles from 30 different film distribution companies, most of which you can explore on Ovid.tv’s Content Partners page. Examples include Bullfrog Films, The dGenerate Films Collection, Distrib Films US, First Run Features, Grasshopper Film, Icarus Films, KimStim, The British Film Institute, and Women Make Movies. OVID is available in the U.S. and Canada. New subscribers can sign-up for a free 7-day trial. Afterwards, subscriptions are just $6.99/month or $69.99 for an annual subscription. OVID.tv: metafilm is its recently launched blog – http://metafilm.OVID.tv

September 2021 highlights include:

  • Spotlight on award-winning Chilean filmmaker Ignacio Agüero with 11 of his acclaimed documentaries including 100 Children Waiting for a Train and The Other Day.
  • 2K restoration of Helene Klodawsky’s Painted Landscapes of the Times, introducing Sue Coe’s passionate art focused on human rights and equality, and exploring her vision.
  • Based on a real story, Etzel Baez’s narrative feature 339 Amín Abel Hasbun. Memory of a Crime, an intriguing account of the murder of a student leader in the Dominican Republic accused of kidnapping a US Embassy official.
  • From Spain, David Trueba’s narrative feature On this Side of the World, a deep and global look at migrations, borders and the most insurmountable walls erected by mankind.
  • Shu Lea Cheang’s witty narrative Fresh Kill envisions a post-apocalyptic landscape strewn with electronic detritus and suffering the toxic repercussions of mass marketing in a high-tech commodity culture.
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