Monica Hampton

{{Short description|American documentary filmmaker}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2013}}

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|birth_place=United States

|alma_mater=University of Maryland, College Park

|occupation=Film producer, music video director

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Monica Hampton is a New York-based narrative and documentary filmmaker.{{cite web|title=Monica Hampton|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/person/529049/Monica-Hampton/biography|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100928005559/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/529049/Monica-Hampton/biography|url-status=dead|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|date=2010|archive-date=2010-09-28}} Her documentary film credits include Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, Heavy Metal in Baghdad,{{cite web |last1=Lee |first1=Nathan |title=How to Rock in Iraq |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/23/movies/23meta.html |website=The New York Times |date=23 May 2008}} the 2008 documentary on Iraqi heavy metal band Acrassicauda and the 2008 documentary Slacker Uprising, a film about Michael Moore's 2004 tour across the United States. In 2005 she joined VICE (magazine) as Head of Production and Post Production of a new division of Vice Media created to make videos and documentaries, at the time the network would be called VBS.tv and would launch online in 2007.{{cite web |last1=Levine |first1=Robert |title=A Guerrilla Video Site Meets MTV |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/19/business/media/19vice.html |website=The New York Times |date=19 November 2007}} In 2000 she produced Kevin Smith's View Askew Productions' Vulgar, a narrative film directed by Bryan Johnson (comic book writer). She began her film career as an assistant director and production manager on low budget indie films in New York including Palookaville, Wishful Thinking (Drew Barrymore, Jon Stewart) and Chasing Amy (Ben Affleck, Jason Lee). She appears in front of the camera uncredited in Chasing Amy, Dogma and Vulgar. She produced Barnaby Clay's documentary Shot! The Psycho-Spiritual Mantra of Rock (2016) about rock photographer Mick Rock and a documentary entitled Tickling Giants on Egypt's Bassem Youssef. Both films premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival{{cite web |title=Tribeca Film Festival: 2016 dates, tickets, film lineup|date=March 8, 2016 |url=https://www.brooklynvegan.com/tribeca-film-festival-2016-dates-tickets-film-lineup/|language=en}} and both films were released theatrically in 2017.{{cite web |title=IFC Center - Tickling Giants |url=http://www.ifccenter.com/films/tickling-giants/ |website=www.ifccenter.com}}{{cite web |title=New documentary on 'Jon Stewart of Egypt' |url=https://www.nonfictionfilm.com/news/top-quotes-from-the-jon-stewart-of-egypt-he-dared-to-take-on-the-powerful-and-paid-a-price |website=NON FICTION FILM |language=en}}{{cite web |title=SHOT! The Psycho-Spiritual Mantra of Rock - Laemmle.com |url=https://www.laemmle.com/films/42101 |website=www.laemmle.com}}

In 2016, Hampton made her directorial debut directing Dean Ween of Ween's, first-ever solo music video for the song "Exercise Man".{{Cite web|url=https://clrvynt.com/dean-ween-interview/|title='Classic Rock Guy' Dean Ween Talks First-Ever Solo Album|last=Cohan|first=Brad|date=October 21, 2016|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.jambase.com/article/dean-ween-group-shares-exercise-man-video/|title=The Dean Ween Group Shares 'Exercise Man' Video|last=Kahn|first=Andy|date=October 7, 2016|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|url=https://consequence.net/2016/10/dean-ween-pushes-his-body-to-the-limit-in-exercise-man-his-first-video-in-16-years-watch/|title=Dean Ween pushes his body to the limit in "Exercise Man", his first video in 16 years — watch|last=Fortune|first=Drew|date=October 7, 2016|language=en-US}} In 2017, Hampton reunited with Michael Moore to create the "Unfuck the World" music video,{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ad4MH7fMLs|title=Official Music Video for "Unfuck the World"|website=YouTube |date=June 1, 2017|language=en-US}} the debut music video for Prophets of Rage. Prophets of Rage, was of the rap rock supergroup composed of three members of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave (bassist and backing vocalist Tim Commerford, guitarist Tom Morello, and drummer Brad Wilk), Public Enemy's DJ Lord and rapper Chuck D, and Cypress Hill rapper B-Real.

Hampton is a graduate of University of Maryland, College Park.