dream hampton

Dream Hampton (or dream hampton, all lowercase in tribute to feminist author Gloria Watkins and her pen name bell hooks) is an American writer, filmmaker, and activist.[1] In the 1990s, she attained prominence as a hip-hop journalist who, employing a literary style and nuanced awareness, intimately profiled leading rappers.[1] Around 2000, she shifted mainly to filmmaking,[2] and has often applied it toward social activism. She was executive producer of the 2019 documentary series Surviving R. Kelly, which, breaking ratings records, may have spurred Kelly's prosecution. In 2019, Hampton was included on Time magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential persons, the Time 100.

dream hampton
dream hampton in 2018
Alma materNew York University
Occupation
  • Filmmaker
  • activist
  • writer
Awards
  • Emmy Nomination: OUTSTANDING INFORMATIONAL SERIES OR SPECIAL - 2019
  • Critic's Choice Real TV Award Winner 2019
  • Banff Rockie Awards: Program of the Year 2019
  • MTV Movie Awards: Best Documentary 2019
  • Vanity Fair: TV Documentaries With The Power To Change Culture 2019
  • Woman of Vision Award 2019: Ms. Foundation for Women
  • BlackStar Film Fest: Best Documentary 2015
  • BlackStar Richard Nichols Luminary Award 2015
  • Los Angeles Film Festival: Documentary Award Nominee
  • Vanity Fair's Best Short Film, I AM ALI, Newport Film Festival, 2003
  • Newport international and Film Festival: Winner
Honours
  • TIME Magazine 100 Most Influential People 2019
  • Visiting Artist, Stanford University's Institute for Diversity in the Arts 2015
  • Kresge Artist Fellow 2014
Websitedreamhampton.com

Early life

Born in 1971 in Detroit, Michigan, Hampton was named after Martin Luther King's celebrated speech, "I Have a Dream".[3] At age 18, Hampton enrolled at New York University, where she studied filmmaking.[1] While a student, she created a documentary featuring rapper Christopher "The Notorious B.I.G." Wallace.

Career

Hampton spent about 18 months at The Source, [4] a hip-hop magazine, which she joined as an intern photo editor, but left as an editor and writer.[5] In a seminal editorial, she had covered Dr. Dre's alleged beating of Dee Barnes. Hampton was editor-in-chief of the short-lived magazine Rap Pages.[6] She contributed to Vibe magazine, launched in 1993, for its first 15 years,[7] and also contributed to Essence, to The Village Voice, and to Spin.[2]

In late 1998, after contributing to Vibe a feature article on rapper Jay-Z, Dream sought to step away from rap journalism to pursue a screenwriting career.[2] "When B.I.G. died", she explained, "I decided I would stop writing about hip hop—nothing inspired me anymore".[2] Her short film I am Ali entered the 2002 Sundance Film Festival,[8] and won "Best Short Film" at Vanity Fair's Newport Film Festival. Hampton co-produced director Peter Spier's 2007 film Bigger than Life, the first feature-length documentary on the Notorious B.I.G.

As a member of the MXGM, the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, she sponsored Black August, a yearly benefit concert for political prisoners.[9] Her concert film about it, Black August: A Hip-Hop Documentary Concert, debuted at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in 2010.[10] In 2013, she directed Treasure, a documentary on the 2011 killing of Shelley Hilliard, a 19-year-old transgender woman, in Detroit.[11] And she made the short documentary We Demand Justice for Ranisha Mcbride, after organizing the protest for Mcbride.[12]

Hampton was executive producer of Surviving R. Kelly, a 2019 documentary series about the decades of sexual-abuse allegations against R. Kelly.[13] The month after its release, R. Kelly was charged with 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse.[14] Hampton then recounted her 19-year pursuit of Kelly.[15]

Works and publications

Books

Essays
  • "D'Angelo: Soul Man", Vibe Magazine, April 2000[17]
  • "Parable of the Writer: Octavia E. Butler, science fiction visionary, 1947–2006", The Village Voice[18]
  • "Dreaming America: Hip Hop Culture", Spin Magazine, November 1993.[19]

Anthologies
  • "Bad Boy", in The Vibe History of Hip Hop, Three Rivers Press[20]
  • "Born Alone, Die Alone", in Born to Use mics: Reading Nas's Illmatic, edited by Michael Eric Dyson & Sohail Daulatzai[21]
  • "Audacity", in Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness. Edited by Rebecca Walker, Soft Skull Press, February 1, 2012[22]

Filmography
  • Surviving R. Kelly, Lifetime, 2019, executive producer
  • Burial of Kojo, Netflix, 2019, co-executive producer[23]
  • Finding Justice, BET, 2019, executive producer[24]
  • It's A Hard Truth Ain't It, HBO, 2019, executive producer [25]
  • Treasure: From Tragedy to Trans Justice Mapping a Detroit Story,[26] 2015, executive producer
  • "The Russian Winter", 2012, associate producer
  • "An Oversimplification of Her Beauty", 2012, co-executive producer
  • "QueenS", 2012, music video for SubPop artists, TheeSatisfaction![27]
  • Black August: A Hip-Hop Documentary Concert, 2010, director[28]
  • Notorious B.I.G.: Bigger Than Life, 2007, executive producer
  • I Am Ali, 2002, director[29]
  • Behind The Music: The Notorious B.I.G., 1997, associate producer[30]

References
  1. Andrew J. Rausch, I Am Hip-Hop: Conversations on the Music and Culture (Plymouth, UK: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2011), p 83.
  2. "The guest list: Dream fresh", Vibe, 1998 Dec–1999 Jan;6(10):44.
  3. "D Original: Interview With dream hampton". The Starting Five. 2009-01-30. Retrieved 2017-05-15.
  4. Rausch, Andrew J. (2011-04-01). I Am Hip-Hop: Conversations on the Music and Culture. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810877924.
  5. "It Was All a Dream: dream hampton Talks Black Women, Sex, & Hip-Hop". Clutch Magazine. Retrieved 2017-05-15.
  6. It's the money not the music a rap galley, New York Daily News. April 4, 1997.
  7. "VIBE Magazine December 2010/January 2011 issue hits newsstands November 30th Archived 2012-03-12 at the Wayback Machine, EON: Enhanced Online News, 29 Nov 2010
  8. I Am Ali, Sundance Institute Archives
  9. Ayan Islam, "dream hampton’s ‘Black August: A hip hop benefit concert’ documentary DC screening", The Smugger, 19 Nov 2010.
  10. "Art + Revolution: Honoring Black August!", Lincoln Center website.
  11. Morgan, Glennisha (2013-06-21). "'Transparent' Documentary Highlights Shelley Hilliard's Murder". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2017-05-15.
  12. Tiggett, Jai (2015-06-08). "Social Justice at the Forefront of LA Film Fest's June 11 #BlackLifeBlackProtest Event". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2017-05-15.
  13. Fortin, Jacey (2019-01-04). "'Surviving R. Kelly' Documentary on Lifetime Details Sex Abuse Accusations". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
  14. "Singer R Kelly 'charged with sexual offences'". BBC. 2019-02-22. Retrieved 2019-02-22.
  15. "'Surviving R. Kelly' Filmmaker: How I Took Down the Incarcerated Singer (Guest Column)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2019-08-06.
  16. Decoded, Jay-Z, Random House, ISBN 978-1-4000-6892-0
  17. Vibe Magazine, April 2000.
  18. of the Writer, The Village Voice, Tuesday, February 28, 2006.
  19. Dreaming America: Hip Hop Culture, Spin Magazine, November 1993..
  20. The Vibe History of Hip Hop, 2010: Three Rivers Press, 432 pages, ISBN 0-609-80503-7
  21. Born to use mics: reading Nas's Illmatic By Michael Eric Dyson, Sohail Daulatzai. Basic Civitas Books (December 29, 2009). ISBN 0-465-00211-0
  22. Staff (December 12, 2011). "Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness. Edited by Rebecca Walker.", Publishers Weekly.
  23. "The Burial of Kojo | Netflix". www.netflix.com. Retrieved 2019-05-07.
  24. "Finding Justice". BET.com. Retrieved 2019-05-07.
  25. "Watch on HBO.com". HBO. Retrieved 2019-05-07.
  26. Wilson, Brandon. "LAFF Review: dream hampton's Devastating 'Treasure: From Tragedy to Trans Justice; Mapping a Detroit Story'". Shadow and Act. Archived from the original on 2016-01-27. Retrieved 2016-02-06.
  27. "Thee Satisfaction - 'Queens'". Vimeo.
  28. Jayson Rodriguez, "'Black August' Screening Draws Chris Rock, Talib Kweli, More", MTV News, August 27, 2010.
  29. I Am Ali, 2002, IMDB
  30. The Root Interview: dream hampton on Black August Archived December 11, 2010, at the Wayback Machine by Lawrence C. Ross Jr. The Root, November 4, 2010
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