Meet our Tony Cox Screenplay Competition Juries

Thank you to our #NFF2021 Tony Cox Screenplay Competition Jury members!

Tony Cox Film Screenplay Jury

Elizabeth Chatelain has directed several acclaimed documentary and narrative shorts which have screened at festivals including Interfilm Berlin and SXSW. Her work primarily profiles working class women struggling against everyday adversity. Elizabeth is currently working on her first feature project, SUNDOGS, which participated in the Berlinale Script Station and was an Academy Nicholl Fellowship Semi-Finalist, Tony Cox Screenplay Competition winner, and Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition Winner. She is currently a Blacklist/Women in Film Feature Fellow.

Sam Cox is a Marketing Strategy Associate at Disney Streaming, working with connected device partners including Amazon and Roku. Prior to that he was Manager of Distribution at Showtime Networks. He graduated from Bucknell University as a Global Management major in 2018, and is currently pursuing an MBA at NYU Stern with a specialty in Media and Entertainment. He is the son of Winston “Tony" Cox, for whom the Screenplay Competitions are named.

Rachel Winter is an Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker and producer who has made her feature directorial debut this spring with THE SPACE BETWEEN for Paramount Pictures. She also serves as producer through her Tangerine Pictures. Previously, Winter received an Oscar nomination for producing DALLAS BUYERS CLUB, which also received accolades from the Producers Guild of America, the Golden Globe Awards, and the Critics Choice Awards. She has several projects in development including an untitled LeBron James biopic for Universal, which she will produce with LeBron James and Maverick Carter, and a feature based on the life of daredevil motorcycle icon Evel Knievel at Paramount. Winter's previous film credits include KRYSTAL, STEALING CARS, BROOKLYN RULES, WAYWARD SON, BURY ME IN KERN COUNTY, and THE LATHER EFFECT.

Tony Cox Episodic Pilot Jury

Andi Delott writes grounded dramas with female leads. Her writing accomplishments include: Winner, Tony Cox Screenplay Competition 2020 for her pilot BEING SEEN; 2019-2020 NBC Writers on the Verge; 2018 PAGE Awards Fellowship to the Stowe Story Labs for her feature FAITH; 2017 New York Women in Film and Television Writers Lab for her feature THE DEAL. Andi is also part of the Impact Creative Network. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she works in entertainment marketing.

Kate Levitt is a script editor and screenwriter with a focus on untraditional coming-of-age narratives. Besides the Tony Cox Screenplay Competition, her scripts have placed in the Austin Film Festival, the Atlanta Film Festival, and the Page International Screenwriting Awards where her drama pilot, TROUBLE, made the finals last year. She's been a reader for Killer Films, New York Women In Film And Television’s Writers Lab, and teaches at Stony Brook University. Kate is also a drummer and has toured both nationally and internationally, playing at fests such as Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, and Primavera Sounds in Barcelona.

Huong Nguyen is a television writer in Los Angeles, where she recently wrapped two seasons of Disney Channel's BUNK'D and is pretty sure she will never work again. She was the winner of the 2018 Tony Cox Screenplay Competition with her TV pilot ALL WE DO IS NGUYEN.