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Yor-El Francis is best known for his work as an Assistant Director on motion pictures, television and commercials. He's also worked as a writer/director on short films, documentaries and a feature film, "Murder in the Cassava Patch" (2012)_ in his native Liberia. His credits include The West Wing (1999), NCIS (2003), The Closer (2005), Crank (2006) Brothers & Sisters (2006) Zeke and Luther (2009)as well as several other productions. Yor-El was born in Monrovia, Liberia where he attended the Hilton Van Ee School and the American Cooperative School. He later attended the Sierra Leone Grammar School in Freetown, Sierra Leone where he completed his secondary education. Upon his graduation the family moved to New York City where Yor-El enrolled in Hunter College, a liberal arts school on Manhattan's Upper East side where he studied film and interned at MTV Networks. In 2003, he was accepted into the prestigious two-year Directors Guild of America's Producer Training Plan. 2005 saw Yor-El winning the African Film Commission's top prize for screen-writing for his screenplay "Piankhi, the Prince of Egypt," a story based on the life of the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh, Piankhi.