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Yoruba Richen
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Career
She is director of the documentary program at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. She has received numerous other grants including from ITVS, the Sundance Documentary Fund, Chicken & Egg Pictures, and the Ford Foundation. In 2014 she was a featured TED Speaker and a Guggenheim Fellow.
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 American Broadcasting Company News as an associate producer for the investigative unit of American Broadcasting Company News as well as a producer for the independent news program Democracy Now!.
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She produced and directed The New Black (2013), which won the audience award at American Film Institute Docs, Frameline Film Festival and Philly Q Festival lieutenant also won best documentary at Urbanworld Film Festival. The New Black was nominated for an National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Image Award and a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary. Her film Promised Land, received a Diverse Voices Company-Production fund award from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and was broadcast on Public Broadcasting Service’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. She won the Creative Promise Award at Tribeca Film Institute"s Tribeca All Access program for emerging filmmakers and was also a Sundance producers fellowship
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