Directed credits
12
Active
Regular directing credits.
Director
Yoruba Richen
Directing
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Directed movies: 8Directed series: 4All crew 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: 6.66
Wikidata: Q16738382
Frequent jobs
Director (12)Producer (5)Writer (2)Consulting Producer (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
Directed Movies
Movies directed by Yoruba Richen.
Free Joan Little
Director
2025 Movie
American Coup: Wilmington 1898
Director
2024 Movie
The Cost of Inheritance
Director
2023 Movie
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Director
2022 Movie
How It Feels to Be Free
Director
2021 Movie
The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show
Director
2020 Movie
American Factory: A Conversation with the Obamas
Director
2019 Movie
The New Black
Director
2013 Movie
Series
Directed Series
Series directed by Yoruba Richen.
The Fall of Diddy
Director • 5 eps
2025 Series
Black and Missing
Director • 3 eps
2021 Series
High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America
Director • 1 eps
2021 Series
The New York Times Presents
Director • 1 eps
2020 Series
Movies
Most Popular Movies
Most viewed movie titles linked with Yoruba Richen.
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
Writer
2019 Movie
The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show
Director
2020 Movie
Crooked Lines
Producer
2018 Movie
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Director
2022 Movie
How It Feels to Be Free
Director
2021 Movie
American Reckoning
Writer
2022 Movie
Out in the Night
Producer
2014 Movie
American Factory: A Conversation with the Obamas
Director
2019 Movie
American Coup: Wilmington 1898
Director
2024 Movie
Dykes, Camera, Action!
as Self
2018 Movie
Free Joan Little
Director
2025 Movie
The Killing of Breonna Taylor
Producer
2020 Movie
Series
Most Popular Series
Most viewed series linked with Yoruba Richen.
American Experience
Producer • 1 eps
1988 Series
The New York Times Presents
Director • 1 eps
2020 Series
The Fall of Diddy
Director • 5 eps
2025 Series
High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America
Director • 1 eps
2021 Series
Black and Missing
Director • 3 eps
2021 Series
Movies
Other Crew Work in Movies
Additional movie credits for Yoruba Richen.
The Recall: Reframed
Producer
2022 Movie
Storming Caesars Palace
Consulting Producer
2022 Movie
American Reckoning
Writer
2022 Movie
The Killing of Breonna Taylor
Producer
2020 Movie
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
Writer
2019 Movie
Crooked Lines
Producer
2018 Movie
Out in the Night
Producer
2014 Movie
Series
Other Crew Work in Series
Additional series credits for Yoruba Richen.
American Experience
Producer • 1 eps
1988 Series
Movies
Acting Appearances in Movies
Movie cast credits for Yoruba Richen.
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2019 Movie
Dykes, Camera, Action!
as Self
2018 Movie