Person
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.
Known for
American Experience
Producer
The New York Times Presents
Director
High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America
Director
The Fall of Diddy
Director
American Factory: A Conversation with the Obamas
Director
Black and Missing
Director
Crooked Lines
Director
Free Joan Little
Director
American Coup: Wilmington 1898
Director
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
Self - Narrator (voice)
Filmography
- 2025Free Joan LittleDirector
- 2025The Fall of DiddyDirector
- 2024American Coup: Wilmington 1898Director
- 2023The Cost of InheritanceDirector
- 2022The Recall: ReframedProducer
- 2022Storming Caesars PalaceConsulting Producer
- 2022The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa ParksDirector
- 2022American ReckoningDirector
- 2021Black and MissingDirector
- 2021High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed AmericaDirector
- 2021How It Feels to Be FreeDirector
- 2020The Killing of Breonna TaylorProducer
- 2020The New York Times PresentsDirector
- 2020And She Could Be NextField Director
- 2020The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight ShowDirector
- 2019American Factory: A Conversation with the ObamasDirector
- 2019The Green Book: Guide to FreedomSelf - Narrator (voice)
- 2018Crooked LinesDirector
- 2018Dykes, Camera, Action!Self
- 2014Out in the NightProducer
- 2013The New BlackDirector
- 2009Promised LandDirector
- 1988American ExperienceProducer
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