Yoruba Richen facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Yoruba Richen
Richen in 2012
Born	1972 New York, New York
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Brown University
Occupation	Director, screenwriter, producer
Known for	The New Black

Yoruba Richen (born in 1972 in New York City, New York) is an American filmmaker. She directs, writes, and produces movies. Her work has been shown on TV channels like PBS and in well-known publications like The New York Times and The Atlantic. One of her films, The Green Book: Guide to Freedom, was very popular on the Smithsonian Channel. It even won an award for excellent documentary filmmaking.

What Yoruba Richen Does

Yoruba Richen has made many important films. She produced and directed The New Black in 2013. This film won audience awards at several film festivals. It also won the best documentary award at the Urbanworld Film Festival. The New Black was also nominated for important awards like an NAACP Image Award.

Her film Promised Land was shown on PBS in 2010. In 2007, she won a special award called a Fulbright award for filmmaking. This award allowed her to travel to Brazil. There, she started making a film called Sisters of the Good Death. This movie is about the oldest group of African women in the Americas. It shows their yearly festival that celebrates the end of slavery. Yoruba also won an award for a short film she made about the singer Andra Day.

Yoruba Richen has received many other honors. She was a Sundance Producers Fellow, which helps new filmmakers. She is also a featured speaker at TED Talks. She has won a Guggenheim fellowship and the Chicken & Egg Breakthrough Filmmaker Award. She was named one of the "Root 100" – a list of important young African Americans. Today, she is the main director of the Documentary Program at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.

Her School and Early Jobs

Yoruba Richen went to Brown University. After college, she lived in San Francisco for a while. Later, she moved back to New York City. She worked for ABC News as an associate producer. This means she helped with the investigative team, which looks into important stories. She also worked as a producer for an independent news show called Democracy Now!.

Films by Yoruba Richen

See also

• LGBT culture in New York City
• List of female film and television directors
• List of lesbian filmmakers
• List of LGBT-related films directed by women
• List of LGBT people from New York City
• NYC Pride March