Angela Tucker
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- Director
- writer
- producer
Angela Tucker | |
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| Born | 10 August |
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| Years active | 2003–present |
Angela Lynn Tucker is an American writer, and Emmy and Webby award winning producer/director.[1][2][3] She is best known for her work on Black Folk Don't, (A)sexual and All Styles.[4][5][6]
Tucker graduated from Wesleyan University with a BA, and from Columbia University with an MFA.[7] She was a Sundance Institute Women Filmmakers Initiative fellow.[8] She has received grants from the MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation, Tribeca All Access and the Brooklyn Arts Council.[9][10] She was awarded an Artist Residency at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs.[11]
Tucker was the Director of Production at Big Mouth Films, a social issue documentary production company. In 2010, Tucker left Big Mouth Productions to focus on her own film production company, TuckerGurl Inc.[citation needed] Her directorial debut under her own company was the feature documentary, (A)sexual, about people who experience no sexual attraction, premiered at Frameline Film Festival.[12][13] In 2013, she directed and produced the documentary series, Black Folk Don't, featured in Time Magazine's “10 Ideas That Are Changing Your Life”.[14]
Tucker's directorial debut feature film, All Styles, starring Dushaunt Fik-Shun Stegall and Heather Morris, premiered on Showtime.[15] In 2018, she directed a short film, All Skinfolk, Ain’t Kinfolk, premiered at Doc NYC.[16] She is also slated to direct the upcoming feature film, Paper Chase..[17]
