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photos by Nic Bucci and Trey Jordan
A Plague of WASPs: short film, digital, 2024

A black comedy about whiteness, wellness and being woke.
Logline: On the eve of her son's wedding, a WASP matriarch becomes transfixed by the idea that her soon-to-be daughter-in-law, a black woman, is the devil.
Written and Directed by: Chloe Simone Crawford
Director of Photography: Adam Kolodny
Editor: Sol Raxlen
Producers: Chloe Simone Crawford, Alexandra Qin, Gus Birney
Sol Raxlen, Panita Chanrasmi- Lefebvre
Associate Producer: Neta Bomani
Executive Producers: Tracey Todd, Cinque Lee
Starring: TONY nominee Annie McNamara, Zachary Booth, Lukas Hassel and Chloe Simone Crawford.
*Recipient of the Panavision New Filmmaker Grant
*Official Selection 17th annual Bushwick Film Festival
*Official Selection 2025 Greenpoint Film Festival
the Bird: short film, digital, in post production
Longline: Clio, a divine muse trapped in a painter’s studio, glimpses freedom in a bird outside—only to spark a tragic unraveling that ends in death, escape, and a haunting legacy captured in a single painting.
Writer / Director: Chloe Simone Crawford
Director of Photography: Dani Payne
Producer: Sophia de Baun
Line Producer: Trey Jordan
Associate Producer: Nikaya Manley
Associate Producer: Christopher Smith
1st AC: Brandon Carmona
2nd AC: Abhishek Mehra
2nd AC: Teo Gutierrez
Key Grip: Tanner Stallbaumer
Gaffer: Chris Yang
Sound: Gabriel Buzack
Production Design: Samantha Duer
Production Assistant: Jordan Yagiello
Production Assistant: Andy Fidoten
Production Assistant: Madisen Faye Anderson
Locations: John Papp, Nicole Stagg