Tony Koros

Tony Koros is a Los Angeles based Kenyan screenwriter, director and producer. He is a 2021 Sundance Screenwriters & Directors Lab Fellow, a recipient of the 2020 Tribeca Film Institute Sloan Grant, a 2020 Cine Qua Non Lab Script Revision Lab fellowship, the Martin E. Segal Production Grant and the 2019 Hollywood Foreign Press Association grant. He was selected for the 2022 Mentorship Matters program under show-runner, Kay Oyegun. His latest short film, "Tithes & Offerings" premiered in competition at Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2019 and has since been acquired for distribution by Canal+. His previous short films have screened at over seventy international film festivals including Palm Springs International Shortfest where he won the Alexis Prize in 2017, Clermont-Ferrand 2018, Fespaco 2017, and won the Sembene prize at the Zanzibar International Film Festival. He holds an MFA in Filmmaking from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts (2018).