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Camille Tucker

Clinical Assistant Professor of Screenwriting

  • Los Angeles CA UNITED STATES

School of Film and Television

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Biography

NAACP Image Award-nominated writer Camille Tucker is a writer, producer, director, and Clinical Assistant Professor of Screenwriting at LMU SFTV. She co-wrote Lifetime’s critically acclaimed biopic The Clark Sisters: The First Ladies of Gospel, which earned five NAACP Image Award nominations, including Outstanding Writing. She has sold scripts to Sony, Universal, New Line, Fox TV and Disney and has worked with producers including Robert De Niro, Marc Platt, Debra Chase and the late John Singleton.

Tucker has directed six short films and has played at the Sundance, Pan African, Palm Springs Short, and Heartland Film Festivals.

Tucker was a 2021 Sony Pictures Television Diverse Writer Program fellow, a 2019 Disney | ABC TV Writing Fellowship finalist and drama alternate, and a 2018 Producers Guild of America Power of Diversity Workshop fellow. She received her BA from UCLA and her MFA from LMU.

More recently, Tucker has written Love on the Vineyard, starring Paula Patton (Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol ) and Derek Luke (Antwon Fisher), for the Lifetime network.

Education

Loyola Marymount University

MFA

Writing for the Screen

Fuller Seminary

MA

Theology and Film

University of California, Los Angeles

BA

English Literature/Creative Writing

Accomplishments

NAACP Image Award Nominee

Sony Pictures TV Fellow, 2022; The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel: NAACP Image Award Nomination for Outstanding Writing for a Made for TV Movie, 2021; Disney | ABC TV Writing Fellowship Finalist, 2019; PGA Power of Diversity Fellow, 2018; Roxbury International Film Festival Best Narrative Short Film, 2012; Sundance Film Festival Official Selection, 1994

Affiliations

  • Writers Guild of America, West