Dream Hampton
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dream hampton (stylized in lowercase letters, in emulation of feminist author bell hooks, who was an early influence) is a cultural critic and filmmaker.
Dream hampton was born in 1971. Location of birth was in Detroit Michigan. She was named after Martin Luther King’s most celebrated speech, “I Have a Dream.” hampton attended New York University. She studied film at the Tisch School of the Arts. During her time at Tisch, she created a film for a documentary class. The documentary starred her neighbor at the time, Christopher "Notorious B.I.G." Wallace.”
Dream hampton is a Writer, Film maker, Cultural Critic and Hip-Hop Journalist. Originally from Detroit, hampton has spent most of her professional career between her hometown and New York. Dream hampton is the first female editor of The Source magazine. She also served as editor-in-chief of short-lived Los Angeles-based Rap Pages Magazine and has been a contributor to Vibe for 15 years, beginning with its launch 1993,The Village Voice, and Spin. Her essays have also been included in over a dozen anthologies, including Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas's Illmatic (2009), edited by Michael Eric Dyson, and Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness (2012), edited by Rebecca Walker. She was cited as one of the editors and writers of Jay-Z's Decoded. In addition, she also worked with him on The Black Book which was never published. hampton was the associate producer of Behind the Music: The Notorious B.I.G, which featured footage from a previous documentary she filmed while in attendance at NYU. and co-producer of Bigger than Life, the first feature-length documentary on the rapper, directed by Peter Spier.
Aside from her numerous contributions with the field of Hip-Hop journalism, she has also produced and written several films. Known for being a social activist, many of her films focused on current events and issues primarily within the black community. Her short film "I am Ali" was an entry at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival and won "Best Short Film" at Vanity Fair's Newport Film Festival. She was a co-executive producer of An Oversimplification of Her Beauty (2012), associate producer of The Russian Winter (2012), director of the music video "QueenS" (2012) for SubPop artists TheeSatisfaction! "QueenS" was hampton's music video directorial debut. In 2013, she directed, TransParent. This documentary targeted the 2011 Detroit killing of Shelley Hilliard, a 19-year-old transgender woman.
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