A Film by Angela Matemotja

Writer/director Angela Danielovna Matemotja was born in Kyiv, to a white mother, a black South African father, and was raised in Los Angeles. Angela came to filmmaking by way of acting and is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Her directorial debut garnered her an NAACP Theatre Nomination for the stage play SUNSHINE FOR A MIDNIGHT WEARY, and her first two multi-award-winning short films which she wrote and directed, screened at festivals worldwide.
Angela’s first feature, ELEVATE which she also wrote and directed won the Female Pioneer Award at Downtown Los Angeles Film Festival, and Best Director at LGBTQ Rainbow Umbrella Film Festival, London in 2019.

Her most recent feature screenplay 1986: A PUNK ROCK LOVE STORY placed at Austin Film Festival 2021, a Stowe Narrative Lab selected project 2022, and a semi-finalist at CineStory. She writes film and television dramas about belonging, identity, and race.