Angela Lynn Tucker is an Emmy and Webby-winning filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist. Her latest film, “The Inquisitor”, premiered at the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival. It explores the legacy of political icon Barbara Jordan and completes a trilogy 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 (PBS’ Independent Lens). She directed and co-wrote the holiday film “A New Orleans Noel” (Lifetime). Her films have screened at Tribeca, BlackStar, and New Orleans Film Festival and aired on NBC and Netflix. Her documentary series Black Folk Don’t was featured in Time Magazine’s “10 Ideas That Are Changing Your Life.”
Angela had two solo exhibitions in New Orleans and shown work in group exhibitions in Washington, DC, Kansas, and NYC. She has been an artist-in-residence at the True/False Film Festival and the Joan Mitchell Center. 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 Fellowship. She holds a BA from Wesleyan University and an MFA from Columbia University. She is an Assistant Professor of Practice in Documentary Expression at the University of Mississippi.
CURRENT WORK
In 1972, Barbara Jordan became the first Southern Black woman to join Congress. THE INQUISITOR chronicles Representative Jordan’s meteoric rise offering a blueprint for uniting a divided America through a turbulent political era. Learn more about film and upcoming screenings here.
PUBLICATION FOR THE INQUISITOR
Tribeca Film Festival – The Inquisitor World Premiere
DC/DOX Film Festival 2025 – DC Premiere
FILM
A New Orleans Noel (2022)
Follows Grace and Anthony, who despite having gone to college to study architecture together, are too different, but things between them change after both are hired to work on the same place and end up celebrating Christmas together.
Watch the trailer here.
Belly of the Beast (2020)
When an unlikely duo discovers a pattern of illegal sterilizations in women’s prisons, they wage a near impossible battle against the Department of Corrections.
Watch the trailer here.
All Skinfolk Ain’t Kinfolk (2018)
A contentious mayoral race in New Orleans comes down to two very different black women, demonstrating that All Skinfolk Ain’t Kinfolk.
Watch the teaser here.
IN THE FIELD
Angela Tucker on set during the production of one of her films.