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Yoruba Richen

Director, Producer, Writer, Additional CreditsBorn January 1, 1972 (53 years)
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.

Known For

  • The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
  • The Fall of Diddy
  • American Factory: A Conversation with the Obamas
  • Brother to Brother
  • High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America
  • The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts the Tonight Show
  • The New Black
  • Black and Missing
  • The New York Times Presents
  • The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
  • American Experience
  • Out in the Night
  • Frontline
  • Storming Caesars Palace
  • American Masters
  • P.O.V.
  • Independent Lens
  • The Recall: Reframed

Filmography

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