Yoruba Richen
Directing
Born: 1972-01-01 · New York City, New York, USA
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.
🎬 Movies (18)
Free Joan Little
2025
Director
American Coup: Wilmington 1898
2024
Director
The Cost of Inheritance
2023
Director
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
2022
Director
American Reckoning
2022
Director
Storming Caesars Palace
2022
Consulting Producer
The Recall: Reframed
2022
Producer
How It Feels to Be Free
2021
Director
The Killing of Breonna Taylor
2020
Director
And She Could Be Next
2020
Field Director
The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show
2020
Director
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
2019
Director
American Factory: A Conversation with the Obamas
2019
Director
Dykes, Camera, Action!
2018
Self
Crooked Lines
2018
Director
Out in the Night
2014
Producer
The New Black
2013
Director
Promised Land
2009
Director
