Personal Info
Birthday
January 1, 1972
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Known For
Directing
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.
Directed Movies (16)
6.4
The Fall of Diddy
TV Series2025
0.0
American Coup: Wilmington 1898
Movie2024
No Backdrop
0.0
The Cost of Inheritance
Movie2023
5.7
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Movie2022
No Backdrop
8.0
American Reckoning
Movie2022
5.2
Black and Missing
TV Series2021
6.9
High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America
TV Series2021
0.0
How It Feels to Be Free
Movie2021
No Backdrop
6.0
The Killing of Breonna Taylor
Movie2020
7.2
The New York Times Presents
TV Series2020
5.9
The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show
Movie2020
5.5
American Factory: A Conversation with the Obamas
Movie2019
7.8
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
Movie2019
No Backdrop
0.0
Crooked Lines
Movie2018
4.8
The New Black
Movie2013
6.5
American Experience
TV Series1988
