Brandon Hammond is an actor/writer/director with over three decades of experience in the entertainment industry. Starting out as a child actor, he has many film/tv credits including The Fan, to name a few. Brandon’s acting talent was put on notice by tv and film critics alike when he Menace II Society, Space Jam and starred in the CBS half-hour sitcom Soul Food. For the latter, Hammond won the The Gregory Hines Show (TGHS) and the Twentieth Century Fox film NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Youth Actor TV Guide’s Best Child for his work as the film’s narrator “Ahmad” and for TGHS, Hammond was named Performer of 1997. Hammond would focus more on a career behind the camera after high school and wrote and directed his first film, Summer Blame, while in college. The short film premiered at the prestigious Pan-African Film Festival in 2006 and was nominated at the Newport Beach Film Festival while winning the Audience Award for best film at The Arizona Black Film Showcase. Hammond co-wrote and directed the short film Amaru, which won the John Singleton Short Film in 2020 and premiered at the 30th Anniversary of the Pan- African Film Festival. He was most Competition ScreenCraft’s TV Pilot Script Competition (2023) for his hourlong pilot, recently named a semifinalist in Amaru, based on his award- winning short. Inspired by health challenges of his own, Brandon plans to launch his “Yes, I Can” Foundation, which is designed to bring awareness to the entertainment industry of physically challenged actors through the arts.