Biography

b. 1975, New York, NY

Angela Tucker is an Emmy and Webby winning filmmaker, multidisciplinary artist and storyteller based in New Orleans, LA. She has crafted a career full of deeply humanistic, bold, and varied social-issue based projects specializing in highlighting the nuanced interiority of Black women.  

Her work has screened at Tribeca Film Festival, BlackStar Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New Orleans Film Festival, amongst others and has been broadcast on NBC, Showtime, PBS, Netflix and Lifetime. She has completed her first solo exhibition at The Diboll Gallery at Tulane University and her most recent documentary, The Inquisitor, about political icon Barbara Jordan will broadcast on PBS in 2025. But she is proudest that her film spotlighting forced sterilizations in California prisons, prompted $7.5 million in reparations from the Governor.  

Angela is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and has received fellowships from Film Independent, The Gotham, Sundance Institute, Firelight Media and Chicken and Egg. She received her BA with Honors in Theater and African-American Studies at Wesleyan University and her MFA in Film from Columbia University. Founder of TuckerGurl Inc, a boutique production company, she is passionate about stories that highlight underrepresented communities in unconventional ways. CV


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