Monica Hampton has worked in the entertainment business since 1994. She has produced fiction and non-fiction features with Michael Moore, VICE Films and View Askew Productions. She has also fulfilled the roles of Head of Production & Post Production and Programming for the critically acclaimed VBS.TV now known as vice.com.
Her career began in New York City in 1994 when she worked on her first feature film as second assistant director on the low budget indie Under the Bridge (1997) starring Melissa Leo and Zach Grenier. In 1996, she produced her first short film called The Package, starring Frank Vincent.
In 1996 she also joined Kevin Smith View Askew Productions to production manage and post supervise the award-winning classic, Méprise multiple (1997). She continued working with View Askew Productions for the next six years working on Dogma (1999), Jay & Bob contre-attaquent (2001) and Père et fille (2004). Under the View Askew banner, Monica solo-produced Vulgar (2000), a full-length feature film distributed by Lions Gate Films in 2002 and executive produced by Smith and partner Scott Mosier.
In 2003, she teamed up with Michael Moore to produce and post supervise _Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004 documentary)_, the highest-grossing documentary feature of all time. After the DVD release, she stayed on with Michael to solo-produce _Slacker Uprising (2007 documentary)_, a film about his 2004 pre-election tour across America featuring Michael, Roseanne Barr, Eddie Vedder, Joan Baez, Michael Stipe, Tom Morello and many others. The film was released a month prior to the 2008 presidential election.
In 2005, Monica joined VICE Magazine, to produce the "Whadafxup" series of Truth anti-smoking national TV commercials. At the time, Vice was developing an online network with filmmaker Spike Jonze. She became Head of Production and Post Production of VBS.TV, said online network featuring all original content produced in-house with Spike Jonze as Creative Director. She was integral in the development and creation of the network from it's inception through launch a year later and beyond. She was charged with hiring and managing the entire in-house staff of Producers, Associate Producers, Editors, Post Associates and freelancers. She programmed the content and oversaw the production, creative and post of over 200 hours of original content during her four-year tenure at VBS.TV. Monica also collaborated with Virtue, Vice's in-house ad agency, on interactive marketing and brand integration for clients including Red Bull, Wyborowa, Dell and Harley Davidson.
While at VICE, Monica produced the highly praised _Heavy Metal in Baghdad (2007 documentary)_, a documentary about Iraq's most famous heavy metal band, Acrassicauda. The world premiere of the film was at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival, the European premiere was at the Berlin International Film Festival and it was distributed theatrically worldwide in 2008. With VICE she also produced The VBS Show, a half hour magazine-style television show broadcast on MTV Networks in 2009.
Monica has also produced national commercial spots and a web series for Microsoft and a documentary on print deprivation for Hewlett Packard.
She produces Aïda Ruilova films and works with Academy Award director Davis Guggenheim.
She has also fulfilled the roles of Line Producer, Music Supervisor, Product Placement Coordinator, Production Accountant, Production Coordinator, Script Supervisor, Still Photographer and Unit Manager on various feature films.
In 2005 Michael Moore sent Monica down to New Orleans to serve as a Disaster Relief Organizer in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
In 2013 she is producing Barney Clay Untitled Mick Rock Documentary.
