I am a filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist based in New Orleans and Mississippi.
About
Angela Lynn Tucker is an Emmy and Webby-winning filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist. She is passionate about stories that highlight underrepresented communities in unconventional ways.
Her latest film, The Inquisitor premiered at the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival. The documentary focuses on political icon Barbara Jordan and is the final installment in a series about Southern Black women and political power, which includes All Skinfolk, Ain’t Kinfolk (PBS' Reel South) and I Am Not Going to Change 400 Years in Four, co-directed by Kristi Jacobson (PBS' Independent Lens). She directed and co-wrote the holiday film A New Orleans Noel, starring Keisha Knight Pulliam and Patti LaBelle (Lifetime) and co-wrote and directed the branded series, The Trees Remember for REI. Her documentary series Black Folk Don’t was featured in Time Magazine’s “10 Ideas That Are Changing Your Life.”
Her films have screened at Tribeca, BlackStar, and New Orleans Film Festival and aired on NBC and Netflix. She recently held her first solo exhibition in New Orleans at Tulane University’s School of Public Health and has shown in group exhibitions in Washington, DC, Kansas, and NYC. She was also an artist-in-residence at the True/False Film Festival and Joan Mitchell Center. She is a member of the artists collective, The Front, in New Orleans, LA. A member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Angela is a fellow of the Sundance Institute, Firelight Media, Chicken & Egg Films, and Netflix’s Amplifier Fellow with Film Independent.
She is an Assistant Professor in Documentary Expression at the University of Mississippi. She holds a BA in Theater and African-American Studies from Wesleyan University and an MFA in Film from Columbia University.
