Yoruba Richen

Yoruba Richen (born 1972) is a film director, screenwriter and producer. ^[1] She produktie and directed The New Black (2013), welke won the audience award at AFI Docs , Frameline Film Festival and Philly Q Fest. It’ll be won best documentary at Urbanworld Film Festival. The New Black was nominated for an NAACP Image Award and a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary . ^[2] She is director of the documentary program at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism .

Her film Promised Land, RECEIVED a Diverse Voices Co-Production Fund Award from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and was broadcast on PBS ‘s POV in 2010. In 2007, she won a Fulbright award in filmmaking and traveled to Brazil , where she Began production on Sisters of the Good Death , a documentary about the oldest African women’s association in the Americas and the annual festival ze hold celebrating the end of slavery.

She has RECEIVED numerous other grants waaronder from ITVS , the Sundance Documentary Fund, Chicken & Egg Pictures, and the Ford Foundation . She was awarded the Creative Promise Award at Tribeca Film Institute ‘s Tribeca All Access program for emerging filmmakers ^[3] and was ook a Sundance producers fellow. In 2014 she was a featured TED Speaker and a Guggenheim Fellow .

Background

Richen is a graduate of Brown University , and lived in San Francisco for a time voordat moving back to New York City, where she worked for ABC News as an associate producer for the investigative unit of ABC News as well as a producer for the independent news program Democracy Now!

Filmography

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