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Chloe de Brito is an Australian Directors Guild award-winning director.
Chloe de Brito crafts visually hypnotic, visceral worlds that unite the imaginary with the real. Chloe is an ADG-award winning director. Her background in song, dance, improvisation and theatre informs her appreciation for preserving and recreating powerful yet temporal moments.
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 Oscar-Qualifying St Kilda Film Festival, Fantastic Fest, 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 was shortlisted and funded for development for a moving image commission for exhibition in the Samstag Museum of Art. Chloe was recently 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 (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Memoria).
Keep It Up, her music video for artist Sonny Grin, which she wrote, directed and choreographed received Best Direction from the Australian Directors Guild and the Clipped Music Video Awards. Chloe has directed music videos for an international slate of artists, which have gained international features and Best Video by Rolling Stone.
In 2023, Chloe undertook a Screen Australia sponsored Director’s Attachment with Tony Krawitz on ABC limited series Significant Others. Chloe has been attached to direct her debut feature Goodbye Marylands written by Jorrden Daley (The Longest Weekend) which is in development with Breathless Films (Birdeater, Lonesome).
Chloe is a graduate of the Australian Film Television and Radio School and the University of Technology. She currently guest lectures at the National Institute of Dramatic Art.