ABOUT

Chloe de Brito (she/her) is an Australian-Portuguese award-winning filmmaker, director and editor working across narrative, documentary and commercial filmmaking. Based between Wangal, Dharug and Wiradjuri lands, she creates visually rich, emotionally resonant work that explores cultural connection, memory and intergenerational experience through immersive cinematic worlds.

Drawing on a background in dance, Chloe brings a distinctive sensitivity to movement, rhythm and performance. Her films are characterised by striking visual language, intimate human storytelling and a fascination with the space where reality and imagination converge.

Her acclaimed short films have screened internationally at major festivals including Melbourne International Film Festival, Fantastic Fest, Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival, Fantaspoa, Morbido Fest and Etheria Underground. Her expressionist short Pink Reef (2022) premiered at MIFF before exhibiting at the Powerhouse Museum and screening as part of ACMI's You Beauties: New Australian Cinema programme at BFI Southbank in London (2023).

In 2023, Chloe was selected for Playlab Films’ international Creators Lab in Mexico, where she directed the hybrid documentary Las profundidades de la memoria (2025) under the mentorship of acclaimed filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul. The film premiered at MIFF and was nominated for Best Short Documentary at the Australian International Documentary Conference and shortlisted for Best Documentary in the 1.4 Awards.

Alongside her independent practice, Chloe has directed commercial and commissioned work for clients including Samsung, Sydney Opera House, Bangarra Dance Theatre and Phoenix Central Park. In 2025, she directed Space to Dream, a large-scale immersive installation for Vivid Sydney exploring memory, imagination and spatial design.

Beginning her career in music videos, Chloe has directed and creative directed projects for artists across Interscope, Universal, Warner and Sony, earning recognition from Rolling Stone and American Songwriter, as well as an Australian Directors’ Guild Award for Best Direction.

An alum of MIFF Accelerator Lab, Adelaide Film Festival’s EXPAND Lab and Sydney Film Festival’s FFS Platform Lab, Chloe is a graduate of AFTRS and UTS, and currently teaches directing in the MFA program at NIDA.