Yoruba Richen
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.
Personal Details
Movies (17)
Free Joan Little
Director (Directing)
2025
American Coup: Wilmington 1898
Director (Directing)
2024
The Cost of Inheritance
Director (Directing)
2023
Storming Caesars Palace
Consulting Producer (Production)
2022
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Director (Directing)
2022
American Reckoning
Director (Directing)
2022
How It Feels to Be Free
Director (Directing)
2021
The Killing of Breonna Taylor
Producer (Production)
2020
And She Could Be Next
Field Director (Directing)
2020
The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show
Director (Directing)
2020
American Factory: A Conversation with the Obamas
Director (Directing)
2019
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2019
Crooked Lines
Director (Directing)
2018
Dykes, Camera, Action!
as Self
2018
Out in the Night
Producer (Production)
2014
The New Black
Director (Directing)
2013
Promised Land
Director (Directing)
2009
