About
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
Free Joan Little2025 · Director
American Coup: Wilmington 18982024 · Director, Producer, Writer
The Cost of Inheritance2023 · Director, Producer
The Recall: Reframed2022 · Producer
Storming Caesars Palace2022 · Consulting Producer
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks2022 · Director, Executive Producer
American Reckoning2022 · Writer, Producer, Director
How It Feels to Be Free2021 · Director
The Killing of Breonna Taylor2020 · Producer, Director
And She Could Be Next2020 · Field Director
The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show2020 · Director
American Factory: A Conversation with the Obamas2019 · Director
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom2019 · Writer, Director
Crooked Lines2018 · Director, Producer
Out in the Night2014 · Producer
The New Black2013 · Director, Producer, Writer
Promised Land2009 · Director