Chloé Wallace is a half Spanish and half American writer, director and photographer born in Madrid. She majored in Audiovisual Communication at Goldsmiths University of London and graduated with an MFA from NYU Grad Film, with the Willard T.C. Johnson and Maurice Kanbar scholarships. After 11 years living between London, New York and Los Angeles, she returned in 2022 to Madrid. At the age of 20, Chloé signed with the production company CANADA as a filmmaker, making her the company’s first and youngest director. Some of her clients have been: Snapchat, Chanel, Reebok, Booking.com, LOLA, Rimmel London, Bayer and Microsoft, to name a few. In 2017, she is awarded Best Director and Best Emerging Artist at the Berlin Commercial Festival. In 2019, her music video for Shura was nominated for a UKMVA award and named one of the top 20 music videos of the year by Billboard. Chloé first picked up a camera at the age of 14 and by 16 was already working as a photographer, becoming a frequent contributor to publications such as Glamour and Vogue Spain for which she still writes and photographs. Eager to learn more, her love of photography pushed her to try directing and the rest is history in the making. In July 2023 she premieres ‘Un Cuento Perfecto’ on Netflix, starring Anna Castillo and Álvaro Mel, her first fiction. A week later, the miniseries becomes the number 1 most watched series in the world, with 6.8 million views in the first week. Un Cuento Perfecto’ becomes the most watched content worldwide for a Spanish-language serialized fiction product, with 24,000,000 viewers and more than 89,000,000 hours viewed of the title, followed by Wednesday (Wednesday), with 23,900,000 million viewers. In November 2023, he publishes his first book ‘Hola, Stranger’ with LAVA publishing house. In February 2024, she begins shooting her first feature film, the adaptation of the Wattpad novel, ‘Bad Influence’. Chloé’s work celebrates popcorn and feminism with equal parts enthusiasm and honesty. She is passionate about original, authentic female characters and bittersweet experiences, always seeking to create a complicated, fantastical, and truly honest world that embraces both darkness and light. When not writing or creating fiction projects, she puts her love of film into commercial work or passion projects in music and fashion. Her background in music (Chloé studied at a music conservatory for 11 years, specializing in baroque recorder) allows her to apply rhythm and melody in her work in a poignant and unique way. “Desire” (2019), her first narrative short film, circulated the festival circuit having been accepted into Palm Springs ShortFest, Maryland Film Festival, Brooklyn Film Festival and more.
Links
The Country – Hello Stranger etc
Esquire – Hello Stranger, UCP
Vogue Spain – UCP
Vogue Spain – MINF
Vogue Spain – UCP
E Billboard – MINF
Movies with N – MINF
Vein – Hello Stranger
Harpers Bazaar – LV
