Griffin Hammond

Griffin Hammond is a documentary filmmaker, known for producing DIY filmmaking tutorials for indie filmmakers, and his award-winning documentary Sriracha. As a journalist, he covered the 2020 U.S. presidential election at The Recount, and the 2016 campaign for Bloomberg News. In 2016 Panasonic named him the global brand ambassador for the Panasonic GH5 camera. The University of Southern California and the U.S. State Department named Griffin a Film Envoy for their American Film Showcase—a cultural diplomacy program that sends independent filmmakers around the world to teach. He’s taught filmmaking workshops in 14 countries, and has produced online courses. Previously, he worked for YouTube Next Lab, as executive producer of the YouTube channel Indy Mogul, and started his career as a video producer and social media strategist at State Farm Insurance. Griffin studied film at New York University, and earned a Masters in Communication from Illinois State University.