Angela Tucker

Angela Lynn Tucker is an American writer, and Emmy and Webby award winning producer/director. She is best known for her work on Black Folk Don't, (A)sexual and All Styles.

Life and career Tucker graduated from Wesleyan University with a BA, and from Columbia University with an MFA. She was a Sundance Institute Women Filmmakers Initiative fellow. She has received grants from the MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation, Tribeca All Access and the Brooklyn Arts Council. She was awarded an Artist Residency at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs.

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. 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. 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”.

Tucker's directorial debut feature film, All Styles, starring Dushaunt Fik-Shun Stegall and Heather Morris, premiered on Showtime. In 2018, she directed a short film, All Skinfolk, Ain’t Kinfolk, premiered at Doc NYC. She is also slated to direct the upcoming feature film, Paper Chase.

Filmography YearTitle Writer Director Producer Notes 2003 Conversations with Id Short Film 2004 Shook Short Film 2005 The Birthday Girl Short Film 2008 Invisible Men: Greg's Story Documentary short 2008 Invisible Men: Andrew's Story Documentary short 2008 Afropop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange Documentary 2009 No Family History Documentary 2010 Dreaming Nicaragua Documentary 2010 Pushing the Elephant Documentary 2011 (A)sexual Documentary 2013 The New Black Documentary 2014 Just the Three of Us Short film 2015 New Orleans, Here and Now TV series 2015 Independent Lens TV series; 2 episodes 2013-2016 Black Folk Don't TV series; 10 episodes 2017 Intersection Short film 2018 All Styles Feature Film 2018 All Skinfolk Ain't Kinfolk Short Film 2020 Paper Chase (pre-production)