Chloé Barreau
DIRECTOR / CREATIVE PRODUCER
Chloé is a Director, Creative Producer and Teacher who lives in Rome, Italy.
After studying French Literature at La Sorbonne in Paris, she began her professional life in Italy teaching at the French Cultural Center.
While working as a freelance journalist and translator, Chloé directed various short films including ACQUA PASSATA (Riccardo Scamarcio) and TV documentaries such as ANNA M. (with French actress Anna Mouglalis) and BLUE IS THE COLOUR (London Raindance Film Festival 2004).
She then was recruted by Fox Channels Italy as a Promo Producer.
After 10 years working with prestigious international brands such as National Geographic Channel and winning multiple Promax Awards for creative communication along the way, it is clear that she knows a thing or two about On-Air Promotion and Branding.
© pic Lorenzo Pesce
Possessing the spirit of an independent filmmaker, Chloé is never far from a project of her own.
Despite a successful career in television, she never stops creating, often collaborating with director Andres Arce Maldonado for documentaries STARDUST MEMORIES (2008) & LA FAUTE A MON PERE (2012 - multiple awards).
In 2015, she also worked as tv writer for the RAI 3 documentary series SCONOSCIUTI.
Since 2018, she is a Lecturer in Communications at JOHN CABOT UNIVERSITY of Rome and often collaborates as speaker and voice-over for promos and commercials.
In 2020 and 2021, she directed two audio documentaries podcast, STARDUST MEMORIES, souvenir della notte trasteverina (RAI RADIO 3, TRE SOLDI) e MALAFEMMINA, la vita favolosa di Lilith Primavera.
In 2023, she directed FRAGMENTS OF A LIFE LOVE, a 90' documentary produced by Matteo Rovere's GROENLANDIA GROUP.
Documentaries, podcast, promos, spots, short format, web content and teasers, she knows how to hook a viewer, how to catch a target, how to move an audience and most of all, how to tell a story.
“the best thing
about having ideas...”
