ABOUT

Chloe de Brito (she/her) is an Australian Directors Guild-award winning director and artist who crafts visually hypnotic, visceral worlds that unite the imaginary with the real.

Fascinated by the seemingly intangible, Chloe’s recent works explore the subjective experience of memory, grief and metaphysical transcendence, in a sensorially evocative way. As such, her work often has an abstraction and ethereality to its style. 

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, Etheria Underground 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 was shortlisted and funded for development for a moving image commission for exhibition in the Samstag Museum of Art. Chloe was selected as a participant for the international Playlab Films 2023 Creators Lab, which took place in Mexico. Here, she directed a short under the tutelage of Apichatpong Weerathesakul. In 2024, Chloe was selected for the Xisto 16mm EcoLab Artists Residency in Portugal, where she shot, hand-processed and edited a short film using ecological materials.

Commercially, Chloe is signed to Collider for representation and has collaborated with the Sydney Opera House, Bangarra Dance Theatre and Phoenix Central Park on works that intersect art and cinema with cultural sensitivity.

Chloe made her start as a music video director, having worked with an international slate of artists across Interscope Records, Universal Music, Warner and Sony. Her music videos have gained recognition from Rolling Stone, American Songwriter and have been awarded Best Direction from the ADG, Clipped Music Video Awards and Made In The West and Best Filmmaker in the Frankie Magazine Good Stuff Awards.

Chloe is a graduate of the Australian Film Television and Radio School, and the University of Technology. She currently teaches the MFA in Directing at the National Institute of Dramatic Arts.