Chloe Sarbib is an American and French-Algerian writer-director based in Brooklyn. She’s drawn to stories about characters who get in their own way.
She was a 2025 Sundance Screenwriters Lab fellow with her first feature film in development, TROU NORMAND, which was previously supported by the Cine Qua Non Lab. 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. She was also a participant in Tribeca and Chanel’s 2024 Through Her Lens program.
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. She won the Zaki Gordon Memorial Prize for Excellence in Screenwriting and was chosen for Faculty Selects at Columbia. Other projects include HER TENDER EYES, an American feature script about two competitive female musicians which was a finalist for the Almanack October Colony and Oxbelly Lab; 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.
