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Angela Tucker is an Emmy and Webby Award winning director, writer and producer who makes nonfiction and fiction films. Her most recent directorial projects include The Trees Remember, a series in collaboration with Rei Co-Op Studios and A New Orleans Noel, an upcoming Lifetime holiday film starring Keisha Knight Pulliam and Patti LaBelle. Past work includes “All Skinfolk, Ain’t Kinfolk”, a documentary short which aired on PBS’ Reel South; All Styles, a dance narrative feature available on Showtime. “Black Folk Don’t”, a documentary web series featured in Time Magazine’s “10 Ideas That Are Changing Your Life”, and “(A)sexual”, a feature length documentary about people who experience no sexual attraction that streamed on Netflix and Hulu. She was a producer of “Belly of the Beast” (dir. Erika Cohn) which broadcast on PBS’ Independent Lens and was a NY Times Critics’ Pick. As founder of TuckerGurl Inc, a boutique production company in New Orleans, Angela is passionate about stories that highlight underrepresented communities in unconventional ways. She received her MFA in Film from Columbia University and BA from Wesleyan University. She is represented by Corrine Aquino and Haley Jones at Artists First.