Chloe Sarbib

Chloe Sarbib is an American and French-Algerian writer, director, and editor based in Brooklyn. An alumna of Yale (BA) and Columbia (MFA, screenwriting/directing), Chloe often tells stories about blurred identity and characters who get in their own way. Chloe's films have played and won awards at festivals in the US and internationally, including Palm Springs International ShortFest, Seattle International Film Festival, Mill Valley Film Festival, Provincetown Film Festival, NewFest, Brooklyn Film Festival and the Bushwick Film Festival. 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 and had its world premiere at the 2022 Aspen Shortsfest. Chloe has been supported by the Janowsky Screenwriting Fellowship, the Indian Paintbrush Production Grant, the Saltonstall Foundation, and the Catwalk Institute. Her screenplay "Les Evenements," about an Algerian in Paris in the 1960s, won the Zaki Gordon Memorial Prize for Excellence in Screenwriting and was chosen for Faculty Selects at Columbia. She has also studied at La Fémis in Paris and at FAMU in Prague.