ABOUT CHLOE CAUDILLO

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Chloe Caudillo is a Chicana writer, director, and producer who hails from the vast cornfields of DeKalb, IL. She grew up code-switching between her Mexican working-class family and American Catholic school peers and teachers. Though it felt like a curse at the time, it made her extremely perceptive of cultural and class differences.  A graduate of The Second City's Harold Ramis Film School, Chloe creates stories about unconventional protagonists who are agents of change.  Her work contains elements of comedy, drama, horror, sci-fi, and surrealism. 

 

In 2023, Chloe was selected for the LALIFF Inclusion Fellowship, through which she wrote and directed the genre-bending short film, Development. It stars Haskiri Velazquez (Saved By The Bell, The Forty-Year-Old Version); Raquel McPeek Rodriguez (NCIS: Los Angeles);  Jeff Lorch (Our Flag Means Death), Leticia Castillo (Jessica Jones, When They See Us) and Sal Lopez (Full Metal Jacket, American Me).  Development screened at the 2023 Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival and was an Official Selection at the New York Latino Film Festival, NewFilmmakers Los Angeles Festival, Seattle Latino Film Festival, and The Micheaux Film Festival. 

Chloe's other short films have screened at the Official Latino Film Festival, Portland Film Festival, Cinesol Film Festival, and several other national film festivals. 

 

Professionally, Chloe has almost two decades of work experience in project and program management. She has also served as an Assistant Director on an independent feature (Cecily and Lydia at the Waypoint) and a comedic pilot (Betty's). In recent years, Chloe has dabbled in improv, sketch, and stop motion animation. 

 

Chloe's long-term goal is to write and direct TV and features.  In the meantime, you'll find her in production on independent passion projects.

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