Yoruba Richen
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- January 1, 1972, New York City, New York, USA
- Movies
- 17
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.
Best-Known Movies
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
2019
American Factory: A Conversation with the Obamas
2019
The New Black
2013
Out in the Night
2014
The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show
2020
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
2022
Dykes, Camera, Action!
2018
The Killing of Breonna Taylor
2020
American Reckoning
2022
The Cost of Inheritance
2023
Filmography
| 2019 | The Green Book: Guide to Freedom | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2018 | Dykes, Camera, Action! | Self |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2025 | Free Joan Little | Director |
| 2024 | American Coup: Wilmington 1898 | Director, Producer, Writer |
| 2023 | The Cost of Inheritance | Director, Producer |
| 2022 | The Recall: Reframed | Producer |
| 2022 | The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks | Director |
| 2022 | American Reckoning | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 2021 | How It Feels to Be Free | Director |
| 2020 | The Killing of Breonna Taylor | Producer, Director |
| 2020 | The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show | Director |
| 2019 | American Factory: A Conversation with the Obamas | Director |
| 2019 | The Green Book: Guide to Freedom | Director, Writer |
| 2018 | Crooked Lines | Director, Producer |
| 2014 | Out in the Night | Producer |
| 2013 | The New Black | Director, Producer, Writer |
| 2009 | Promised Land | Director |
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