dream hampton | |
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 dream hampton in 2024 | |
| Born | 1972 [1] |
| Alma mater | New York University |
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| Known for | Surviving R. Kelly (2019 documentary series) |
| Website | www |
dream hampton (stylized in lowercase) is an American filmmaker, producer, and writer. Her work includes the 2019 Lifetime documentary series Surviving R. Kelly , which she executive produced, and the 2012 An Oversimplification of Her Beauty , on which she served as co-executive producer. She co-wrote Jay-Z's 2010 memoir Decoded .
hampton was born to an African American family in Detroit in 1972, and has said she was named after Rev. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. [1] [2] [3] She stylizes her name in all-lowercase as a nod to author bell hooks. [1] [4] She studied filmmaking at New York University. [1]
hampton has written for Vibe , Essence, Harper's Bazaar , The Village Voice , Detroit News, The Source , and Spin . [5] She co-wrote Jay-Z's 2010 memoir Decoded. [6] [7]
As a member of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, an African-American activist group inspired by Malcolm X's "Message to the Grass Roots" speech, hampton co-organized Black August, a benefit concert for political prisoners. [8] Her concert film about the event, Black August: A Hip-Hop Documentary Concert, premiered at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in 2010. [9] In 2013, hampton directed Treasure, a documentary about the 2011 killing of Shelley Hilliard, a 19-year-old transgender woman, in Detroit. [10] She made the short documentary We Demand Justice for Renisha Mcbride after organizing a protest over Mcbride's death. [11]
hampton was executive producer of Surviving R. Kelly , a 2019 documentary series about the decades of sexual-abuse allegations against R. Kelly. [12] Page six reported that a Homeland Security agent had watched the series and started a federal investigation into the victims' allegations. [13] After its release, Kelly was charged with aggravated criminal sexual abuse and other crimes for an eventual total of 18 federal charges. [13] [14] [15]
She has been a Visiting Artist with Stanford University's Institute for Diversity in the Arts and a Kresge Artist Fellow. [16] [17]
As of 2020, hampton served on the board of the advocacy group Color of Change. [18]
Her short film I Am Ali was selected for the 2002 Sundance Film Festival [19] and won "Best Short Film" at the Newport Film Festival. [20]
In 2015 she received a Richard Nichols Luminary award and Treasure: From Tragedy to Trans Justice Mapping a Detroit Story won Best Documentary at the BlackStar Film Festival. [21] [22]
In 2019 hampton received a Ms. Foundation Gloria Award and was named on the Time 100. [23] [24] She and Brie Miranda Bryant and Tamra Simmons, who worked with her on Surviving R. Kelly, were named to Variety 's 2019 Power Women New York list. [25]
Surviving R. Kelly received a Peabody Award. [26] [27] It received an MTV Movie Award for Best Documentary. [28] It received a Rockies Award for "Program of the Year" at the Banff World Media Festival. [29]
In 2023 she received a Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center Residency. [30]
In 2024 she was selected by The New Museum as the Stuart Regen Visionary, for "individuals who have made major contributions to art and culture and who are actively imagining a better future". [31]
hampton is from Detroit and attended New York University Tisch School of the Arts. [32]
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