screenwriting & filmmaking
Chloe's first feature screenplay: Colored Actress has been highlighted for various accolades including:
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2024 Michael Collyer Screenwriting Fellowship Finalist
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2023 $100,000 GM x The Black List Writer Driven Shorts Finalist
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2022 The Black List Feature Lab Finalist
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2022 The Black List Hallmark Mahogany Emerging Voices Partnership Awards Winner
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2021 WIF x The Black List Feature Residency Semi-Finalist
In 2023 Chloe was a recipient of the Panavision New Filmmaker Grant for her first short film A Plague of Wasps, which she directed, wrote and starred in. The film premiered at the 17th Bushwick Film Festival sponsored by Netflix.
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.
*Official Selection 17th annual Bushwick Film Festival
*Official Selection 2025 Greenpoint Film Festival
photos by Nic Bucci