Known For
Directing
Born
Jan 01, 1972
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Credits
23 titles
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.
Known For
Filmography
Free Joan Little
Director
The Fall of Diddy
Director
American Coup: Wilmington 1898
Director
The Cost of Inheritance
Director
The Recall: Reframed
Producer
Storming Caesars Palace
Consulting Producer
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Director
American Reckoning
Director
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
The New York Times Presents
Director
And She Could Be Next
Field Director
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 - Narrator (voice)
Crooked Lines
Director
Dykes, Camera, Action!
Self
Out in the Night
Producer
The New Black
Director
Promised Land
Director
American Experience
Producer