dream hampton

Recognition Hampton's short film I Am Ali was selected for the 2002 Sundance Film Festival and won "Best Short Film" at the Newport Film Festival.

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.

In 2019 hampton received a Ms. Foundation Gloria Award and was named on the Time 100. 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.

Surviving R. Kelly received a Peabody Award. It received an MTV Movie Award for Best Documentary. It received a Rockies Award for "Program of the Year" at the Banff World Media Festival.

In 2023 she received a Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center Residency.

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".

Filmography Behind The Music: The Notorious B.I.G. (1997), associate producer Treasure: From Tragedy to Trans Justice Mapping a Detroit Story (2015), executive producer We Demand Justice for Renisha Mcbride It's A Hard Truth Ain't It (HBO 2019), executive producer Finding Justice (BET 2019), executive producer Burial of Kojo (Netflix 2019), co-executive producer Surviving R. Kelly (2019), executive producer We Hold These Truths (2022), director Freshwater (2022), director Ladies First: A Story of Women in Hip-Hop (2023), director, executive producer It Was All A Dream (2024), director