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dream hampton is an award-winning filmmaker and writer from Detroit.

Her studio, 
Pink Gators, crafts stories rooted in beauty and curiosity.

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“hampton ranks in my top-five writers of all time.

Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson
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Time
1984: bell hooks
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VIllage Voice
Ice, Ice Baby
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Village Voice
Real Niggaz Do Die
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The New York Times
The Heartbreak of Kanye West
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Village Voice
Parable of the Writer
Home that is burnt down.
Detroit Free Press
Things I Lost in the Fire
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VibE
Jay-Z: The Life
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Vibe
Soul Man
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dream hampton is an award-winning filmmaker and writer. She was Showrunner and Executive Producer on the Emmy-nominated documentary series Surviving R. Kelly, which earned her a Peabody Award. Hers is a practice that combats erasure and exposes the entanglement of art, violence, and power. In 2019, TIME magazine named hampton one of the most influential people in the world.

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“She challenges a culture that assumes we are all bystanders watching a forest fire and instead places us squarely inside of the flames.”

Tarana Burke
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The Atlantic
Hip-Hop’s Fiercest Critic
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hyperallergic
Filmmaker dream hampton Culls Memories From Detroit’s Flooded Basements
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Hammer & Hope
dream hampton Has Worked to Dismantle Hip-Hop’s Toxicity
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Rolling Stone
‘It Was All a Dream’ Shows the Early Days of Hip-Hop — Warts and All
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Time Magazine
dream hampton: The 100 is on the 2019 TIME 100 List
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Hope 2.’
ON BEING
Darnell Moore and dream hampton: The Future of 
Hope 2
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Politically Re-Active with W. Kamau Bell & Hari Kondabolu
dream hampton on Black Liberation in the Hour of Chaos
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The Atlantic
Political Art Isn’t Always Better Art

“The individual artist is by nature a questioner and a critic; that’s what she does. Her questions and criticisms are her work.”

TONI MORRISON