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Yoruba Richen
Affiliation during program: ABC News
Country Focus: South Africa
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| Program: Fall 2004 [email protected] |
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Yoruba Richen is a producer for the national daily radio and television program Democracy Now. She is also the director and producer of "Promised Land" - a documentary about race, reconciliation and land reform in post-apartheid South Africa. She began the film as an IRP fellow. An excerpt of "Promised Land" aired on the PBS program "Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zacharia" and screened at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. "Promised Land" also received the 2006 Fledgling Fund Award for Social Issue Documentary presented by the Independent Feature Project. Yoruba is a 2007 recipient of the Fulbright Scholar Award. She will be traveling to Brazil to begin work on a documentary about Afro-Brazilian women. Previously, Yoruba was an associate producer in the investigative unit of ABC News. She was also an associate producer for a number of films including the BET series "Biographies in Black" and the feature film "Brother to Brother." Yoruba was the co-producer of "Take it From Me," a documentary exploring the effects of welfare reform on New York City women. The film was featured on the PBS series P.O.V in 2001.
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