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OTV Studio Rebrands As Breaking Light Studio With Lilly Wachowski As Creative Advisor & Strategic Partner; Circle Of Confusion To Co-Produce Select Projects Across Film, TV

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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 the poem ‘Boy Breaking Glass’ resonate strongly with us,” Breaking Light Studio CEO Stephanie Jeter told Deadline. “I have always maintained that representation in film and television for marginalized folks is a revolutionary act,” said Wachowski. “For myself, getting the chance to develop scripts from under-represented writers and filmmakers at Breaking Light has been nothing less than pure joy.

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