Person

dream hampton

Directing · Detroit, Michigan, USA

dream hampton (stylized in lowercase letters, in emulation of feminist author bell hooks, who was an early influence) is an American cultural critic and filmmaker.

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  Behind the Music

  Associate Producer

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  Surviving R. Kelly

  Executive Producer

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  Ladies First: A Story of Women in Hip-Hop

  Director

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  SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)

  Self

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  Freshwater

  Narrator

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  It Was All a Dream

  Director

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  Songs from the Hole

  Executive Producer

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  Notorious B.I.G.: Bigger Than Life

  Executive Producer

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  This World Is Not My Own

  Executive Producer

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  Treasure: From Tragedy to Trans Justice Mapping a Detroit Story

  Director

• 2025SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)Self
• 2024It Was All a DreamDirector
• 2024Songs from the HoleExecutive Producer
• 2023Ladies First: A Story of Women in Hip-HopDirector
• 2023This World Is Not My OwnExecutive Producer
• 2022FreshwaterNarrator
• 2019Surviving R. KellyExecutive Producer
• 2018The Burial of KojoCo-Executive Producer
• 2018It's a Hard Truth Ain't ItExecutive Producer
• 2016A History of The War on Drugs, from Prohibition to Gold RushProducer
• 2015Treasure: From Tragedy to Trans Justice Mapping a Detroit StoryDirector
• 2012The Russian WinterProducer
• 2012An Oversimplification of Her BeautyCo-Executive Producer
• 2010The Black August Hip Hop ProjectDirector
• 2007Notorious B.I.G.: Bigger Than LifeExecutive Producer
• 2002I Am AliDirector
• 1997Behind the MusicAssociate Producer