Chloe

In the fall of 2021, we set out to raise $45,000 - almost our entire budget of $50,000. And we did it!

In order to make this film the way we want to make it, we need to raise an additional $5,000 by June 1st of this year. 

Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to help us reach our goal! 

Chloé is a short film about how fear and prejudice, even through the innocent eyes of a child, can have horrific consequences. Along with my co-producer, the award-winning Matthieu Moerlen, I am in the process of fundraising for this project. We hope to go into production in Normandy in August of 2022.

Chloé tells the tale of three people whose lives clash during the Invasion of Normandy in the summer of 1944: a ten year-old girl with an unbridled imagination, her deaf grandmother who tries to protect her, and a terrified soldier who has lost his way.

Over the course of one stormy evening, a seed of distrust blooms into a misunderstanding that has terrible consequences.

Nobody, neither the little girl, her grandmother, or the soldier, will escape unscathed.

Chloé takes place during a harrowing and pivotal moment in history, not unlike the tense and uncertain state of our current world. It is about the effect isolation has on us, the tricks it plays on our minds. It is about this great, unseen force that terrorizes us even when we can’t see it. How do children grapple with this faceless enemy? How does growing up in such an uncertain world change the way they see themselves and those around them? How does it affect their growth and the games they choose to play? Chloé is an austere fable about how we as a human race deal with overwhelming unknowns.

This film also explores our tragic human instinct to destroy that which we do not understand. As an artist I still wrestle with how best to respond to this, especially in times such as these. I started making movies at the age of 10. I was a lonely, highly sensitive child and I took to filmmaking immediately. The overwhelming world only truly made sense through the lens of a camera.

Chloé directly supports female filmmakers. My team's mission is to create more opportunities for female filmmakers in the industry. According to the Celluloid Ceiling report, women comprised 16% of directors working on the top 100 grossing films in 2020, up from 12% in 2019 and 4% in 2018. Each dollar donated to Chloé is a dollar spent on raising those numbers at the ground level.