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Yoruba Richen

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Yoruba Richen

Born
(age 54)
Birthplace
New York City, New York, USA
Credits
22 titles

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.

Latest project Best work, ranked IMDb

Signature work

Known For

Acting credits 2

YearTitleRole
2019 The Green Book: Guide to Freedom Film Self - Narrator (voice)
2018 Dykes, Camera, Action! Film Self

Crew credits 21

YearTitleJob
2025 Free Joan Little Film Director
2025 The Fall of Diddy TV Director (5 ep)
2024 American Coup: Wilmington 1898 Film Director, Producer, Writer
2023 The Cost of Inheritance Film Director, Producer
2022 The Recall: Reframed Film Producer
2022 Storming Caesars Palace Film Consulting Producer
2022 The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks Film Director, Executive Producer
2022 American Reckoning Film Writer, Producer, Director
2021 Black and Missing TV Director (3 ep)
2021 High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America TV Director (1 ep)
2021 How It Feels to Be Free Film Director
2020 The Killing of Breonna Taylor Film Producer, Director
2020 The New York Times Presents TV Director, Producer (1 ep)
2020 The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show Film Director
2019 American Factory: A Conversation with the Obamas Film Director
2019 The Green Book: Guide to Freedom Film Writer, Director
2018 Crooked Lines Film Producer, Director
2014 Out in the Night Film Producer
2013 The New Black Film Director, Producer, Writer
2009 Promised Land Film Director
1988 American Experience TV Producer, Writer, Director (1 ep)
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