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Yoruba Richen
New York City, New York, USA
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 F…
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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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2025
Free Joan Little
Movie Director
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2025
The Fall of Diddy
TV show Director
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2024
American Coup: Wilmington 1898
Movie Director
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2023
The Cost of Inheritance
Movie Director
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2022
The Recall: Reframed
Movie Producer
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2022
Storming Caesars Palace
Movie Consulting Producer
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2022
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Movie Director
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2022
American Reckoning
Movie Writer
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2021
Black and Missing
TV show Director
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2021
High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America
TV show Director
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2021
How It Feels to Be Free
Movie Director
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2020
The Killing of Breonna Taylor
Movie Producer
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2020
The New York Times Presents
TV show Director
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2020
The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show
Movie Director
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2019
American Factory: A Conversation with the Obamas
Movie Director
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2019
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
Movie Self - Narrator (voice)
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2018
Crooked Lines
Movie Director
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2018
Dykes, Camera, Action!
Movie Self
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2014
Out in the Night
Movie Producer
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2013
The New Black
Movie Director
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2009
Promised Land
Movie Director
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1988
American Experience
TV show Producer
