Jonathan Hammond (filmmaker)
American filmmaker
Jonathan Brandon Hammond is an American film director, film editor, screenwriter and film producer who directed the films Expect A Miracle: Finding Light in the Darkness of a Pandemic (2020), Isabel (2018), Kathy (2018), We All Die Alone (2021), and Fireflies in the Dusk (2025). Hammond won the Copper Wing Award for short film directing at the Phoenix Film Festival, a Best Writing Award at San Diego International Fringe Festival, and received multiple nominations for a Pacific Southwest Emmy Award at National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
Early life
Hammond is the son of Joseph and Belva Gadlage. A grant recipient from National Endowment for the Arts, he grew up in Decatur, Illinois and attended Eisenhower High School. In 1994, Hammond graduated from Richland Community College with an Associate in Arts degree, later studying at University of Illinois and New York University Tisch School of the Arts. He relocated to San Diego and later to Los Angeles.
Career
Hammond has cited influences from the works of Steven Spielberg, Alfonso Cuarón, Quentin Tarantino, and Taika Waititi. His film Expect A Miracle depicts San Diego's handle on AIDS in the 1980s, a time where sexual orientation towards the same gender was confined.
Hammond was a panelist at San Diego Comic-Con and compared being selected to screen his film Kathy there as exciting as having an Emmy nomination. He was a judge for the Minneapolis 48 Hour Film Project in 2020 and his film Before depicted a dinner party within the COVID-19 pandemic.
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