An example of Griffin's documentary-style work, Sriracha has been called ”gorgeously shot” by the San Francisco Chronicle, and won Best Short Film at the NYC Food Film Festival.
Griffin’s 2023 Chicago Marathon story reached 500,000+ viewers on TikTok.
Griffin shares his favorite audio trick—the invisible microphone.
Griffin Hammond is a documentary filmmaker, known for sharing DIY filmmaking tutorials for indie filmmakers, and his award-winning hot sauce 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 Lumix GH5 camera. View his entire filmmaking kit here.
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 an online course—Shooting Documentary Short Films.
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.