Yoruba Richen

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.
Crew

The Killing of Breonna Taylor
Producer, Director

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Director, Executive Producer

The New Black
Director, Producer, Writer

Out in the Night
Producer

The Cost of Inheritance
Director, Producer

American Reckoning
Writer, Producer, Director

Storming Caesars Palace
Consulting Producer

The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
Writer, Director

Crooked Lines
Producer, Director

American Factory: A Conversation with the Obamas
Director
Promised Land
Director

And She Could Be Next
Field Director

The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show
Director

How It Feels to Be Free
Director

American Coup: Wilmington 1898
Director, Producer, Writer
Free Joan Little
Director
