Yoruba Richen
Born: 1972-01-01 in New York City, New York, USA
Known For: Directing
Biography
Yoruba Richen (born 1972) is a film director, screenwriter and producer. She produced and directed The New Black (2013), which won the audience award at AFI Docs, Frameline Film Festival and Philly Q Fest. It also won best documentary at Urbanworld Film Festival. The New Black was nominated for an NAACP Image Award and a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary. She is director of the documentary program at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.
Filmography
2025
- The Fall of Diddy ... (Director)
- Free Joan Little ... (Director)
2024
- American Coup: Wilmington 1898 ... (Director)
2023
- The Cost of Inheritance ... (Director)
2022
- Storming Caesars Palace ... (Consulting Producer)
- The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks ... (Director)
- American Reckoning ... (Writer)
2021
- How It Feels to Be Free ... (Director)
- High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America ... (Director)
2020
- The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show ... (Director)
- The New York Times Presents ... (Director)
- The Killing of Breonna Taylor ... (Producer)
- And She Could Be Next ... (Field Director)
2019
- American Factory: A Conversation with the Obamas ... (Director)
- The Green Book: Guide to Freedom as Self - Narrator (voice)
2018
- Crooked Lines ... (Director)
- Dykes, Camera, Action! as Self
2014
- Out in the Night ... (Producer)
2013
- The New Black ... (Director)
2009
- Promised Land ... (Director)
1988
- American Experience ... (Producer)