Resita Cox (she/her) is an Emmy Award-winning documentary film director and producer. Resita was born and raised in the South, and her films center Southern Black communities, using intimate observational narratives to examine topics ranging from environmental justice to hidden Black histories. She was recently named an Esteemed Artist by the City of Chicago and a 2024 Rockwood Documentary Leaders Fellow by the Ford Foundation. She is one of Elevate’s 2022 Climate Changemakers and is the director/producer of Freedom Hill, an award-winning documentary about the environmental racism that is washing away the first town chartered by Black people in the nation; the film recently premiered on the PBS WORLD Channel. Resita is a Hulu/Kartemquin Accelerator Fellow as well as a North Star Fellow with Points North Institute. She organizes an annual youth media camp in her home community in eastern North Carolina.

Resita Cox is the director of 2023 Project Hatched film Freedom Hill and 2025 (Egg)celerator Lab film Basketball Heaven.