
Directing
Yoruba Richen
1 January 1972 (54) New York City, New York, USA
- Directed
- 18
- Written
- 5
- Produced
- 10
- Movies
- 2
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
- 2025
- The Fall of Diddy · Series · Director
- Free Joan Little · Film · Director
- 2024
- American Coup: Wilmington 1898 · Film · Director
- 2023
- The Cost of Inheritance · Film · Director
- 2022
- The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks · Film · Director
- American Reckoning · Film · Writer
- Storming Caesars Palace · Film · Consulting Producer
- The Recall: Reframed · Film · Producer
- 2021
- High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America · Series · Director
- Black and Missing · Series · Director
- How It Feels to Be Free · Film · Director
- 2020
- The New York Times Presents · Series · Director
- The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show · Film · Director
- The Killing of Breonna Taylor · Film · Producer
- 2019
- The Green Book: Guide to Freedom · Film · Narrator (voice)
- The Green Book: Guide to Freedom · Film · Writer
- American Factory: A Conversation with the Obamas · Film · Director
- 2018
- Dykes, Camera, Action! · Film
- Crooked Lines · Film · Producer
- 2014
- Out in the Night · Film · Producer
- 2013
- The New Black · Film · Director
- 2009
- Promised Land · Film · Director
- 1988
- American Experience · Series · Producer



















