ABOUT

Chloe de Brito is an Australian Directors Guild-award winning film director who crafts visually hypnotic, visceral worlds that unite the real with the imaginary. 

Chloe’s expressionist short Pink Reef (2022) premiered at the Oscar-qualifying 70th Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), has exhibited at the Powerhouse Museum and has been curated by ACMI at the BFI Southbank in London, as part of the You Beauties: New Australian Cinema programme in February 2023. Pink Reef has screened in festivals internationally including Fantastic Fest, Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival, Morbido Fest and Fantaspoa.

Chloe is a 2022 alumni of the prestigious MIFF Accelerator Lab and a 2023 alumni of the Adelaide Film Festival Expand Lab where her project has been shortlisted and funded for development for a moving image commission for exhibition in the Samstag Museum of Art. Chloe was selected for the international Playlab Films 2023 Creators Lab, which took place in Yucatan, Mexico. Here, she directed a short film under the tutelage of prolific Thai director Apichatpong Weerathesakul. 

Chloe’s debut short, foreign language short Edo (2015) shot on location in Tokyo, Japan received international acclaim including Best Direction at the 2021 Vermiose Film Festival. Edo is available to view online via Film Shortage. 

Chloe has directed music videos for an international slate of artists across Interscope Records, Universal Music, Warner and Sony, which have gained international features, Best Video by Rolling Stone and have been awarded 'Best Direction' from the Australian Directors Guild, the Clipped Music Video Awards and Best Video by the Made In The West Film Festival. Chloe was also awarded Best Filmmaker in the Frankie Magazine Good Stuff Awards for her music video career.