Yoruba Richen
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- January 1, 1972
- Birthplace
- New York City, New York, USA
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
Free Joan Little 2025
Director
American Coup: Wilmington 1898 2024
Director, Producer, Writer
The Cost of Inheritance 2023
Director, Producer
The Recall: Reframed 2022
Producer
Storming Caesars Palace 2022
Consulting Producer
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks 2022
Director, Executive Producer
American Reckoning 2022
Writer, Producer, Director
How It Feels to Be Free 2021
Director
The Killing of Breonna Taylor 2020
Producer, Director
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
as Self - Narrator (voice), Writer, Director
Crooked Lines 2018
Producer, Director
Dykes, Camera, Action! 2018
as Self
Out in the Night 2014
Producer
The New Black 2013
Director, Producer, Writer
- Promised Land
Promised Land 2009
Director
Credits from TMDB.