Hamilton Sterling
Writer, Director, Producer, Editor, Sound, Cinematographer
Hamilton Sterling is a filmmaker, sound designer, and musician. He wrote and directed Absent Now the Dead, an avant-garde history of the reign of demagogues, and the personal/historical documentary, And So Farewell, with music by renowned jazz guitarist and composer Ralph Towner. Hamilton was the recipient of an AFI/NEA filmmaker grant for his dark comedy Faith of Our Fathers (1997) which played the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival, The Cinequest Film Festival (where it was nominated for a Maverick Spirit Award), and the New York Anthology Film Archives. His sound work includes sound design and sound editing on five Terrence Malick films, including Voyage of Time, and James Mangold’s Logan, and Academy Award Sound Editing winners Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, and Peter Weir’s Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. Hamilton has worked for Christopher Guest, Paul Thomas Anderson, Barbet Schroeder, Andrew Dominik, John Waters, and Steven Spielberg, and has won four Motion Picture Sound Editors awards. Hamilton also released Migration, a soundscape album with Grammy-Award winning composer and bassist Jimmy Haslip, as well as a solo bass album, Rise and Fall. He is at work on a new film, The Midnight Day.
Hamilton is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.