Chloe Sarbib is an American and French-Algerian writer-director based in Brooklyn who tells stories about blurred identity and characters who get in their own way. She is a member of the Directors Guild of America (DGA). Her films have screened at film festivals such as Aspen Shortsfest, Palm Springs ShortFest, Seattle International Film Festival, and more. Her short film Girl Friend (2018) won the Best Student Short Film award at the Provincetown International Film Festival and the Best New York Short award at NewFest. Jensen, her latest short film, won the Jury Award at the 2022 DGA Student Film Awards. She also directs television, most recently on In the Dark (CW/Netflix). A Yale University (B.A.) and Columbia University (M.F.A.) alumna, Chloe’s writing has received support from the Janowsky Screenwriting Fellowship, Indian Paintbrush Production Grant, Saltonstall Foundation, Catwalk Institute, and Cine Qua Non Lab’s Storylines Lab. Her feature screenplay Les Evenements won the Zaki Gordon Memorial Prize. Chloe is a professor at Montclair State University and is represented by Anonymous Content.

Trou Normand (Calvados) — An aging actress at home for Christmas grows obsessed with finding a lost heirloom, convinced it’s the cure for the mysterious illness that’s making her mother disappear.