Warrington Hudlin (July 16, 1952- ) is an American film director, producer, and actor. He has produced such films as House Party (1990), Boomerang (1992), and Cosmic Slop (1994). While a senior at Yale University, Hudlin made the documentary Black at Yale: A Diary (1974) documenting the experiences of African American students at Yale in the early 1970s and featuring a conversation with Stokey Carmichael. In 1977, Hudlin made Street Corner Stories, another iconic documentary that features employees, customers, Yale employees, neighborhood kids, and others mixing and meeting at a New Haven convenience store. The cinéma verité shooting style captures the African American street-corner vernacular that Hudlin presents as a spoken form of the blues. The featured individuals discuss work, politics, police, alcohol, drugs, guns, money, women, and life in general. Both Black at Yale: A Film Diary and Street Corner Stories have been preserved by the Yale Film Study Center. In 1978, Hudlin, along with George Cunningham, and Alric Nembhard, founded the Black Filmmaker Foundation (BFF), a non-profit media arts organization dedicated to supporting, nurturing, and advocating for Black filmmakers.

The Warrington Hudlin Collection consists of several film reels, mainly outtakes, sound elements, and a copy of the work print for Street Corner Stories (1977), as well as two reels of uncut interviews from Black at Yale.

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