Yoruba Richen
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.
Known For
Directing
Gender
Female
Birthday
1 January 1972
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
MEDIA
FILMOGRAPHY
Dykes, Camera, Action!
2018-06-19Actor
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
2019-02-25Actor, Writer, Director
The Killing of Breonna Taylor
2020-09-04Producer, Director
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
2022-06-16Director, Executive Producer
The New Black
2013-06-14Director, Producer, Writer
Out in the Night
2014-06-12Producer
The Cost of Inheritance
2023-11-21Director, Producer
American Reckoning
2022-02-15Writer, Producer, Director
Storming Caesars Palace
2022-08-03Consulting Producer
Crooked Lines
2018-10-31Producer, Director
American Factory: A Conversation with the Obamas
2019-09-03Director
Promised Land
2009-01-01Director
And She Could Be Next
2020-05-31Field Director
The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show
2020-04-15Director
How It Feels to Be Free
2021-01-18Director
American Coup: Wilmington 1898
2024-10-21Director, Producer, Writer
Free Joan Little
2025-11-12Director
The New York Times Presents
2020-07-10Director, Producer
American Experience
1988-10-04Producer, Writer, Director
The Fall of Diddy
2025-01-27Director
High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America
2021-05-26Director
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