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Gender:Unspecified
Birth Date:1972-01-01 00:00:00
Birth Place:New York City, New York, USA
Known For:Directing
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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.
Filmography (33)
Dykes, Camera, Action!
Role: Self2018
Crooked Lines
director2018
American Reckoning
producer2022
American Reckoning
director2022
The Cost of Inheritance
producer2023
The New Black
producer2013
The New Black
writer2013
Storming Caesars Palace
consulting producer2022
Crooked Lines
producer2018
The Cost of Inheritance
director2023
No Image
Promised Land
director2009
And She Could Be Next
field director2020
American Coup: Wilmington 1898
director2024
American Coup: Wilmington 1898
producer2024
American Coup: Wilmington 1898
writer2024
No Image
Free Joan Little
director2025
The Recall: Reframed
producer2022
American Reckoning
writer2022
How It Feels to Be Free
director2021
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
executive producer2022
Out in the Night
producer2014
The New Black
director2013
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
director2022
The Killing of Breonna Taylor
director2020
The Killing of Breonna Taylor
producer2020
American Factory: A Conversation with the Obamas
director2019
The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show
director2020
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
director2019
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
writer2019
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
Role: Self - Narrator (voice)2019
WWE The Best of Raw & SmackDown 2015
director2016
WWE The Best of Raw & SmackDown 2015
writer2016
WWE The Best of Raw & SmackDown 2015
producer2016