Chloe Sarbib is an American and French-Algerian writer-director based in Brooklyn who often tells stories about blurred identity.
Her films have played and won awards at festivals in the US and internationally, including Aspen Shortsfest, Palm Springs International ShortFest, Seattle International Film Festival, Mill Valley Film Festival, Brooklyn Film Festival and more. Her short GIRL FRIEND won Best Student Short at Provincetown Film Festival and Best New York Short at NewFest. Her latest short, JENSEN, won the Jury Award in the Women’s Category at the 2022 DGA Student Film Awards. She has also directed for television, most recently on the CW’s IN THE DARK, now streaming on Netflix.
An alumna of Yale (BA) and Columbia (MFA, screenwriting/directing), Chloe has been supported by the Janowsky Screenwriting Fellowship, the Indian Paintbrush Production Grant, the Saltonstall Foundation, and the Catwalk Institute. Her French feature screenplay LES EVENEMENTS won the Zaki Gordon Memorial Prize for Excellence in Screenwriting and was chosen for Faculty Selects at Columbia; it was a finalist for the Sam Spiegel International Film Lab. Other projects include HER TENDER EYES, an American feature script about two competitive female musicians which was a Sundance Development Track Second Rounder and a finalist for the Almanack October Colony and Oxbelly Lab; TROU NORMAND, a French feature script selected for Cine Qua Non Storylines Lab and a semi-finalist for Almanack; and LUNA GLEN, an American TV series about physical history and inherited trauma.
Chloe is a professor at Montclair State University; she previously taught at Columbia and studied at La Fémis in Paris and at FAMU in Prague. She is a member of the Directors Guild of America and is represented by Ian McKnight at Anonymous Content.
