Yoruba Richen Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
By IRP Staff, May 02, 2012
Yoruba Richen, a documentary filmmaker and an IRP Fellow to South Africa in fall of 2004, has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
As an IRP Fellow in fall 2004, Richen directed the documentary “Promised Land,” an exploration of race and land in post-apartheid South Africa. The film, which aired on PBS in 2010, follows two black communities in South Africa trying to recover ancestral lands lost during apartheid.
Richen’s current film, “The New Black,” uncovers the complicated and often combative histories of the African-American and LGBT civil-rights movements. It will be broadcast on PBS in 2013.
Since 1925, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has offered fellowships to artists, scientists and scholars in all fields, based on impressive past achievements and promise for future accomplishments.