Acting credits
2
Early stage
Smaller on-screen catalog so far.
Actor
Yoruba Richen
Directing
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 16Series: 5Crew credits: 20
TMDB ID: 1209864
IMDb ID: nm1115070
Known for: Directing
Born: January 1, 1972
Age: 54
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1988 - 2025
Years active: 38
Average TMDB rating: 6.67
Wikidata: Q16738382
Other jobs
Director (11)Producer (5)Writer (2)Consulting Producer (1)Field Director (1)
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.
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Yoruba Richen.
Director
American Coup: Wilmington 1898
2024 • Movie
Director
The Cost of Inheritance
2023 • Movie
Producer
The Recall: Reframed
2022 • Movie
Consulting Producer
Storming Caesars Palace
2022 • Movie
Director
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
2022 • Movie
Writer
American Reckoning
2022 • Movie
Director
How It Feels to Be Free
2021 • Movie
Producer
The Killing of Breonna Taylor
2020 • Movie
Field Director
And She Could Be Next
2020 • Movie
Director
The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show
2020 • Movie
Director
American Factory: A Conversation with the Obamas
2019 • Movie
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
2019 • Movie
Producer
Crooked Lines
2018 • Movie
as Self
Dykes, Camera, Action!
2018 • Movie
Producer
Out in the Night
2014 • Movie
Director
The New Black
2013 • Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Yoruba Richen.
Director • 5 eps
The Fall of Diddy
2025 • Series
Director • 3 eps
Black and Missing
2021 • Series
Director • 1 eps
High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America
2021 • Series
Director • 1 eps
The New York Times Presents
2020 • Series
Producer • 1 eps
American Experience
1988 • Series