OVID.tv, the groundbreaking subscription video-on-demand platform, has become one of the top streaming platforms offering high quality Latin American and Latinx cinema in the U.S., with a large (and growing) collection of prize-winning and classic films.
Celebrating this year's Hispanic Heritage Month, running September 15 to October 15, OVID.tv offers over one hundred Latin American and U.S. Latinx titles, most of them available exclusively on the streaming platform. This collection includes the catalogs of 46 producers and distributors of the most noteworthy, independent film distribution companies in the country.
With a rare and exciting library of award winning films, OVID.tv’s numerous titles by groundbreaking Latin American directors include master documentarian Patricio Guzmán with his seminal documentaries The Battle of Chile and Nostalgia for the Light; Elena, the debut feature by Academy Award nominated Brazilian director Petra Costa (The Edge of Democracy); and three films by acclaimed Chilean director Pablo Larraín: Tony Manero, Post Mortem, and The Club.
The catalog’s commitment to Latin American cinema is reflected in the depth of its titles, which include documentary and fiction, classics and contemporary, and commercially successful and art house films. This commitment is shown through OVID’s exhaustive collections—boasting eight titles by the Chilean director Dominga Sotomayor including Too Late to Die Young, winner of the Leopard Award for Best Director at the Locarno Festival; two films by acclaimed Salvadoran-Mexican director Tatiana Huezo: The Tiniest Place and Absences; as well as films by both father and daughter Brazilian filmmakers, Silvio Da-Rin and Maya Da-Rin: 10th Parallel and The Fever, respectively.
Other Latin American highlights of OVID’s library include the Mexican Emmy documentary winner Presumed Guilty by Roberto Hernández and Geoffrey Smith; Cinema Novo, Erik Rocha’s love letter to the influential Brazilian film movement; the Sundance Award winner When Two Worlds Collide by Heidi Brandenburg and Mathew Orzel; and the New York Times Critics’ Pick 108 (Cuchillo de palo) by the late Paraguayan director Renate Costa.
September marks a new milestone for OVID with the release of 48 films, the most in any month since the streaming platform’s launch. The complete library now surpasses 1,600 titles and continues to grow every month.
