dream hampton

In this engaging discussion, award-winning filmmaker dream hampton explores the vital role of storytelling in reshaping public perceptions of climate solutions. Drawing from her influential career, she emphasizes the need for climate experts in writers' rooms to create relatable narratives. She critiques the simplistic messaging from the right, contrasts it with progressive complexities, and highlights the power of humor and artistic approaches in climate communication. Also, dream shares insights from her poetic film Freshwater, connecting personal memory to larger environmental issues.

Rupert Murdoch steps down as head of Fox Corp and News Corp, Dream Hampton discusses her new docuseries 'Ladies First' which spotlights women in hip-hop, challenges of finding a TV outlet for the series before Netflix got involved, addressing misogyny in hip-hop, untold story of Cindy Campbell, impact of COVID on production process.

We’re in a time as thick with uncertainty as with possibility. Many of us are still, and again, exhausted — and yet opening, fitfully, to what we’ve learned and have been called to at this moment in the life of the world. Toward nourishing that, the second offering in our new series, The Future of Hope, with social creative Darnell Moore in conversation with filmmaker dream hampton. The influence they wield spans hip-hop to Netflix to the Oscars; from the Movement for Black Lives to Surviving R. Kelly. It is an honor to enter this tender, intimate conversation between two dear friends. In them we experience a muscular hope in justice oriented toward redemption — and calling out in a spirit of “calling in.”dream hampton is a filmmaker and writer. She won a George Foster Peabody Award for the docu-series Surviving R. Kelly. She’s been named as one of Time Magazine’s most influential people. Find an archive of all her writing at dreamhampton.com.Darnell Moore is the Vice President of Inclusion Strategy at Netflix. His memoir is, No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free In America, and he is host of the podcast “Being Seen.”Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.