Directing
Yoruba Richen
New York City, New York, USABorn 1972 (54 years old)
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.
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TV Shows
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Crew Credits
Known For
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Behind the Camera
17 Credits
American Experience
Producer, Writer, Director
1988
The Fall of Diddy
Director
2025
The New York Times Presents
Director, Producer
2020
Crooked Lines
Producer, Director
2018
High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America
Director
2021
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
Writer, Director
2019
American Reckoning
Writer, Producer, Director
2022
How It Feels to Be Free
Director
2021
The New Black
Director, Producer, Writer
2013
American Coup: Wilmington 1898
Director, Producer, Writer
2024
The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show
Director
2020
The Cost of Inheritance
Director, Producer
2023