ABOUT

Chloe de Brito (she/her) is an award-winning director and artist whose work conjures visually immersive, emotionally resonant worlds where the real and the imagined dissolve into one another. Her cinematic language is dreamlike yet visceral - anchored in mood, myth, and a deep attunement to the unseen.

Fascinated by the ineffable - memory, grief, and spiritual transcendence - Chloe’s films evoke a heightened, almost metaphysical sensoriality. Her visual storytelling leans toward abstraction, expressionism and ethereality.

Her expressionist short film Pink Reef (2022) premiered at the Oscar-qualifying Melbourne International Film Festival and went on to screen at Fantastic Fest, Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival, Morbido Fest, Fantaspoa, and Etheria Underground. Pink Reef has exhibited at the Powerhouse Museum and was selected by ACMI for the You Beauties: New Australian Cinema programme at BFI Southbank in London (2023).

Chloe is a 2022 alum of MIFF’s Accelerator Lab and a 2023 participant in the Adelaide Film Festival’s EXPAND Lab, where her group’s project was shortlisted for a moving image commission for the Samstag Museum of Art. In 2023, she was invited to the international Creators Lab hosted by Playlab Films in Mexico, where she directed Las profundidades de la memoria under the mentorship of Apichatpong Weerathesakul. The film will have its world premiere at MIFF 2025. She was also selected for the inaugural Sydney Film Festival FFS Platform Lab, a new development incubator for distinctive, world-building voices in Australian cinema.

In 2025, Chloe collaborated with Samsung to direct Space to Dream, a large-scale immersive installation for Vivid Sydney. Fusing cinematic storytelling with cutting-edge technology, the work invited audiences into a liminal dreamscape that blurred the boundaries between memory, imagination and spatial design.

Chloe has directed poetic visual works and commercials for the Sydney Opera House, Bangarra Dance Theatre and Phoenix Central Park - projects that sit at the intersection of cinema, installation, and cultural storytelling. 

Beginning her career in music video, Chloe has directed for artists under Interscope, Universal, Warner and Sony. Her work has been recognised by Rolling Stone and American Songwriter, and awarded Best Direction by the Australian Directors’ Guild, Clipped Music Video Festival, Made in the West, and the Frankie Magazine Good Stuff Awards.

Chloe is a graduate of AFTRS and UTS, and currently teaches directing in the MFA program at the National Institute of Dramatic Art.