Yoruba Richen
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Female
Birthday
1972-01-01 (53 years old)
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
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.
Known For
Acting
(2019)
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(2018)
Dykes, Camera, Action!
as Self
Crew
(2024)
American Coup: Wilmington 1898
Director, Producer, Writer
(2023)
The Cost of Inheritance
Director, Producer
(2022)
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Director, Executive Producer
(2022)
American Reckoning
Director, Writer, Producer
(2022)
Storming Caesars Palace
Consulting Producer
(2021)
How It Feels to Be Free
Director
(2020)
The Killing of Breonna Taylor
Producer, Director
(2020)
And She Could Be Next
Field Director
(2020)
(2019)
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
Director, Writer
(2019)
(2018)
Crooked Lines
Director, Producer
(2014)
Out in the Night
Producer
(2013)
The New Black
Director, Producer, Writer
(2009)
Promised Land
Director