Lorna Tucker
2021This January saw her first feature documentary Westwood - Punk Icon Activist chosen for competition and debuted to great acclaim at the 2018 Sundance Film festival. Since then it has been featured at various prominent film festivals including True/False and CPH:DOX 2018.
Westwood is a definitive look at the life, fashion and activism of one of Britain's most iconic and original designers. Lorna has received rave reviews for Westwood with audiences turning out in their droves to see this thoroughly entertaining film in theatres around the UK !
This summer will see the release of Amá, a feature documentary, which because of its socially sensitive nature has taken over 9 years to bring to fruition. Produced by Raindog Films and to be released through Dartmouth Films, Amá is a gentle yet powerful film about the sterilization abuses of Native American women across the United States during the last 60 years.
Next up: Lorna has written several screenplays and the first of these will go into pre production with Ged Doherty and Collin Firth's Raindog films this summer with Lorna once again in the directors chair.
Biography By: Rhiannon Sussex
AMÁ
Lorna Tucker
Reimert Ravenholt, Jean Whitehorse
Amá is a feature length documentary which tells an important and untold story: the abuses committed against Native American women by the United States Government during the 1960’s and 70’s: removed from their families and sent to boarding schools, forced relocation away from their traditional lands and involuntary sterilization. The result of nine years painstaking and sensitive work by filmmaker Lorna Tucker, the film features the testimony of many Native Americans, including three remarkable women who tell their stories - Jean Whitehorse, Yvonne Swan and Charon Aseytoyer - as well as a revealing and rare interview with Dr. Reimart Ravenholt whose population control ideas were the framework for some of the government policies directed at Native American women.
Amá
