Yoruba Richen

Yoruba Richen (born 1972, in New York City, New York) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer.[1] Her work has been featured on PBS, New York Times Op Doc, Frontline Digital, New York Magazine’s website -The Cut, The Atlantic and Field of Vision. Her film The Green Book: Guide to Freedom was broadcast on the Smithsonian Channel to record audiences and was awarded the Henry Hampton Award for Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking.

Yoruba Richen
Richen in 2012
Born1972
New York, New York
NationalityAmerican
Alma materBrown University
OccupationDirector, screenwriter, producer
Known forThe New Black

Yoruba produced and directed 'The New Black (2013), which won the audience award at AFI Docs, Frameline Film Festival and Philly Q Fest. It also 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]

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 they hold celebrating the end of slavery. Yoruba won a Clio award for her short film about the Grammy-nominated singer Andra Day.

Yoruba has also won Creative Promise Award at Tribeca All Access and was a Sundance Producers Fellow. She is a featured TED Speaker, a Fulbright fellow, a Guggenheim fellow and a 2016 recipient of the Chicken & Egg Breakthrough Filmmaker Award. Yoruba was chosen for the Root 100s list of African Americans 45 years old and younger who are responsible for the year’s most significant moments and themes. She is the Founding Director of the Documentary Program at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.

Education and early career

Richen is a graduate of Brown University, and lived in San Francisco for a time before 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!.[3]

Filmography
YearFilmDirectorProducerCo-producerOther
2001 Take It From Me Yes
2004 Brother to Brother Associate producer
2009 Promised Land Yes Yes
2013 The New Black Yes Yes Co-writer
2014 Out in the Night Yes
2020 The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts the Tonight Show Yes Co-writer
2020 The Killing of Breonna Taylor Yes Yes
2021 How It Feels To Be Free Yes

See also

References
  1. "Yoruba Richen". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2012.
  2. "Yoruba Richen's 'The New Black' Wins Audience Award at AFI Docs". The Hollywood Reporter. June 25, 2013.
  3. "Promised Land – Filmmaker Bio". POV. PBS. 2010. Retrieved 23 March 2019.

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