Yoruba Richen
Profile info
Known forDirecting
GenderFemale
Birthday1 January 1972 (54 years old)
Place of birthNew York City, New York, USA
Known credits22
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.
Free Joan Little
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The Fall of Diddy
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American Coup: Wilmington 1898
2024 · Director
American Coup: Wilmington 1898
2024 · Producer
American Coup: Wilmington 1898
2024 · Writer
The Cost of Inheritance
2023 · Director
The Cost of Inheritance
2023 · Producer
The Recall: Reframed
2022 · Producer
Storming Caesars Palace
2022 · Consulting Producer
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
2022 · Director
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
2022 · Executive Producer
American Reckoning
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American Reckoning
2022 · Producer
American Reckoning
2022 · Director
Black and Missing
2021 · Director
High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America
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How It Feels to Be Free
2021 · Director
The Killing of Breonna Taylor
2020 · Producer
The Killing of Breonna Taylor
2020 · Director
The New York Times Presents
2020 · Director
The New York Times Presents
2020 · Producer
The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show
2020 · Director
American Factory: A Conversation with the Obamas
2019 · Director
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
2019 · Self - Narrator (voice)
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
2019 · Writer
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
2019 · Director
Crooked Lines
2018 · Director
Crooked Lines
2018 · Producer
Dykes, Camera, Action!
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Out in the Night
2014 · Producer
The New Black
2013 · Director
The New Black
2013 · Producer
The New Black
2013 · Writer
Promised Land
2009 · Director
American Experience
1988 · Producer
American Experience
1988 · Writer
American Experience
1988 · Director
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