Yoruba Richen
15 movies · 5 TV shows
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- Jan 1, 1972 (age 54)
- Place of birth
- 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.
Profiles IMDb
Known for
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★ 6.5 American Experience
1988 · TV
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★ 6.5 The Fall of Diddy
2025 · TV
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★ 7.0 The New York Times Presents
2020 · TV
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★ 5.5 American Factory: A Conversation with the Obamas
2019 · Film
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★ 5.0 The New Black
2013 · Film
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★ 7.0 High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America
2021 · TV
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★ 5.9 The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show
2020 · Film
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★ 5.2 Black and Missing
2021 · TV
Yoruba Richen: movies and TV shows
Behind the camera (21)
- 2025 Free Joan Little
Director
- 2025
- 2024 American Coup: Wilmington 1898
Director, Producer, Writer
- 2023 The Cost of Inheritance
Director, Producer
- 2022 The Recall: Reframed
Producer
- 2022 Storming Caesars Palace
Consulting Producer
- 2022 The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Director, Executive Producer
- 2022 American Reckoning
Writer, Producer, Director
- 2021
- 2021
- 2021 How It Feels to Be Free
Director
- 2020 The Killing of Breonna Taylor
Producer, Director
- 2020
- 2020
- 2019
- 2019 The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
Writer, Director
- 2018 Crooked Lines
Director, Producer
- 2014 Out in the Night
Producer
- 2013 The New Black
Director, Producer, Writer
- 2009 Promised Land
Director
- 1988
Talk shows and appearances (1)
- 2018