From: Detroit, Michigan. LA Opera: the Digital Short We Hold These Truths (2021, debut).

dream hampton is an award-winning filmmaker and writer from Detroit. Her most recent works include the Frameline feature documentary Treasure (2015), the BET docu-series Finding Justice (2019) and Lifetime's Emmy-nominated Surviving R. Kelly (2019), which broke ratings records and earned a Peabody Award. In 2019, hampton was named one of Time's 100 most influential people in the world.

Learn more at dreamhampton.com.