It Was All a Dream
A visual memoir from director dream hampton’s personal archives about the dawn of the golden era of hip hop.
Thank you to our screening partner: Sisters in Cinema
Directors Spotlight
dream hampton
Director
dream hampton is an award-winning filmmaker and writer from Detroit. For two decades her essays and cultural criticism helped shape a generation. Her most recent works include the award-winning short film “Freshwater” (NYT OpDocs/PBS, 2023) and “Ladies First” (Netflix, 2023). Selected works include “Treasure“ (Frameline, 2015), “Finding Justice” (BET, 2019), “It’s A Hard Truth Ain’t It” (HBO, 2019) and the Emmy-nominated “Surviving R. Kelly”; (Netflix, 2019), which broke ratings records and earned her a Peabody Award. In 2019, hampton was named one of TIME’s most influential people in the world.
- Runtime
- 83 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Director
- dream hampton
- Cast
- dream hampton, Emir Lewis, Nicole Jefferson Asher
- Cinematographer
- dream hampton, Emir Lewis, Nicole Jefferson Asher
- Composer
- Stas THEE Boss
- Executive Producer
- dream hampton, Thomas K. Richards, Christopher Jordan Wallace
- Producer
- dream hampton, Emir Lewis, Morgan Willis, Josh Begley
- Production Design
- Stas THEE Boss
- Screenwriter
- dream hampton, Emir Lewis, Morgan Willis, Josh Begley
- Sound Design
- Gavin Whelehan
- Co Producer
- Sallomé Hralima, David Feinberg
- Editor
- David Feinberg
- Music
- Barry Cole, Rocio Contreras
- Premiere
- Philadelphia