Yoruba Richen
- Directing
- January 1, 1972 · 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
Filmography
- Free Joan Little · Director
- The Fall of Diddy · Director
- American Coup: Wilmington 1898 · Director, Producer
- The Cost of Inheritance · Director, Producer
- The Recall: Reframed · Producer
- Storming Caesars Palace · Consulting Producer
- The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks · Director, Executive producer
- American Reckoning · Writer, Producer
- Black and Missing · Director
- High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America · Director
- How It Feels to Be Free · Director
- The Killing of Breonna Taylor · Producer, Director
- The New York Times Presents · Director, Producer
- The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show · Director
- American Factory: A Conversation with the Obamas · Director
- The Green Book: Guide to Freedom · Self, Writer
- Crooked Lines · Producer, Director
- Dykes, Camera, Action! · Self
- Out in the Night · Producer
- The New Black · Director, Producer
- Promised Land · Director
- American Experience · Producer, Writer