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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.

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Directing

2009

[ ] Promised Land (Director)

2013

[ ] The New Black (Director)

2018

[ ] Crooked Lines (Director)

2019

[ ] The Green Book: Guide to Freedom (Director)
[ ] American Factory: A Conversation with the Obamas (Director)

2020

[ ] And She Could Be Next (Field Director)
[ ] The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show (Director)
[ ] The Killing of Breonna Taylor (Director)

2021

[ ] How It Feels to Be Free (Director)

2022

[ ] The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (Director)
[ ] American Reckoning (Director)

2023

[ ] The Cost of Inheritance (Director)

2024

[ ] American Coup: Wilmington 1898 (Director)

2025

[ ] Free Joan Little (Director)

Production

2013

[ ] The New Black (Producer)

2014

[ ] Out in the Night (Producer)

2018

[ ] Crooked Lines (Producer)

2020

[ ] The Killing of Breonna Taylor (Producer)

2022

[ ] The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (Executive Producer)
[ ] American Reckoning (Producer)
[ ] Storming Caesars Palace (Consulting Producer)

2023

[ ] The Cost of Inheritance (Producer)

2024

[ ] American Coup: Wilmington 1898 (Producer)

Writing

2013

[ ] The New Black (Writer)

2019

[ ] The Green Book: Guide to Freedom (Writer)

2022

[ ] American Reckoning (Writer)

2024

[ ] American Coup: Wilmington 1898 (Writer)

Actor

2018

[ ] Dykes, Camera, Action! (Self)

2019

[ ] The Green Book: Guide to Freedom (Self - Narrator (voice))