Screenplay Competition Jurors

Michael Ewing

Michael is a producer and has worked in production since 1990, earning credits on landmark comedies like Tommy Boy, The Naked Gun series, and 50 First Dates. He has three projects currently in development.

Valerie Levett

Valerie recently retired from a 33-year career with Warner Bros where she worked in the Feature Film Story Department as both a Story Analyst and Story Editor. She was the first to read Harry Potter for Warner’s (and, yes, recommended it!). Now she pursues her own writing and feels grateful to have the time to devote to it.

Patty Reed

Patty has worked with veteran producer Hunt Lowry (Last of the Mohicans, A Time to Kill) since 2004, first as a Creative Executive at Gaylord Films and most recently as a Vice President at Roserock Films where she oversees development and production. While at Roserock Films Reed served as a producer on the country music film Pure Country: Pure Heart for Warner Home Entertainment in addition to working on the previous film in that brand Pure Country 2: the Gift, the Robert Rodriguez film Shorts, the Carroll Ballard film Duma, and the stand-up comedy direct to DVD film series Thou Shalt Laugh.