Biography
Chloe de Brito is an Australian Directors Guild (ADG) award-winning director and editor who produces highly visceral and cinematic work spanning across experimental, narrative, music video and commercial. She is a graduate of the Australian Film Television and Radio School and the University of Technology Sydney. Her debut short Edo received international acclaim including Best Direction at the 2021 Vermiose Film Festival with screenings and awards across Australia, Asia and Europe. Keep It Up, her music video for artist Sonny Grin, which she wrote, directed and choreographed received 'Best Direction' from the 2021 Clipped Music Video Awards, as well as ‘Best Direction’ from the ADG. Chloe has directed music videos for an international slate of artists including Renforshort (Interscope), Hauskey (Universal Music), Guapdad 4000 (Dreamville/Warner), Emalia (Sony Music), CXLOE (AWAL) and No Frills Twins (Island Records). Her music videos have accrued millions of views on Youtube and have gained international features and Best Video across Rolling Stone Magazine, Refinery29, American Songwriter, Elle Australia, Girlfriend, The Music and Triple J. Recently, Chloe was awarded Best Filmmaker in the Good Stuff Awards and was featured in Australia/New Zealand popular publication Frankie magazine. Commercially, Chloe has directed spots for Adidas, JD Sports and Spotify. As an editor, she has collaborated with (select) fashion brands such as AJE, Zimmermann and Nike. Narrative, art short film Pink Reef starring Bernie Van Tiel premiered at the 70th Melbourne International Film Festival and has been nominated as Semi-Finalist for Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival and Official Selections to Brisbane International Film Festival, Torino Underground Cinefest, Sydney Underground Film Festival and Australian Women in Film Festival. Chloe was selected and participated in the prestigious MIFF Accelerator Lab. Chloe recently undertook a Screen Australia Director’s Attachment with Tony Krawitz on ABC limited series Significant Others. _Currently, Chloe is developing various long and short form projects including coming of age family drama _He’s Not Here and surrealist road film Mary Joy.