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 has been 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.
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 is attached to direct her debut feature Goodbye Marylands written by Jorrden Daley (The Longest Weekend) and produced by 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.
LABS
2023 Creators Lab with Apichatpong Weerathesakul in Mexico, Playlab Films
2023 Adelaide Film Festival Expand Lab at the Samstag Museum of Art
2022 Accelerator Lab, Melbourne International Film Festival
AWARDS & ACCOLADES
2023 Remi Award, Houston International Film Festival
2022 Best Music Video, Made in the West
2022 Finalist, Australian Women in Film
2021 Best Direction in a Music Video, Australian Directors Guild
2021 Best Video, Frankie Good Stuff Awards
2020 Best Direction, Clipped Music Video Festival
2018 Best Direction, Vermiose Film Festival
SCREENINGS & EXHIBITIONS
2023 Fantastic Fest
2023 Morbido Film Fest
2023 Filmquest
2023 Etheria Film Festival
2023 Atlanta Underground Film Festival
2023 St Kilda Film Festival (Oscar-qualifying)
2023 Fantaspoa International Fantastic Film Festival
2023 British Film Institute, Feb 2023 “You Beauties: New Australian Cinema”
2023 Festival International du Film Océanien
2022 Brisbane International Film Festival
2022 Sydney Underground Film Festival
2022 Australian Women’s Film Festival
2022 Torino Underground Cinefest
2022 Powerhouse Museum, Powerhouse Up Late
2022 Melbourne International Film Festival (Oscar-qualifying)
COMMISSIONED WORKS
2021 Phoenix Central Park, “SMOULDER”