Directing
Yoruba Richen
EN cinema · 17 credits
Born
1 January 1972 (age 54)
Birthplace
New York City, New York, USA
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.
Known for
Filmography
American Coup: Wilmington 1898
Director, Producer, Writer
The Cost of Inheritance
Director, Producer
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Director, Executive Producer
American Reckoning
Director, Writer, Producer
Storming Caesars Palace
Consulting Producer
The Killing of Breonna Taylor
Producer, Director
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
as Self - Narrator (voice), Director, Writer
Crooked Lines
Director, Producer
Out in the Night
Producer
The New Black
Director, Producer, Writer