Chloe Domont
{{short description|American screenwriter and director (born 1987)}}
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| education = New York University
| occupation = Television and film director
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Chloe Domont (born September 2, 1987) is an American television and film writer and director, best known for her 2023 film directorial debut, Fair Play, an erotic thriller about gender dynamics in the workplace.{{Cite web |last=Dighe |first=Om |title=Domont debuts with the gripping and powerful "Fair Play" |url=https://trinitonian.com/2023/11/02/domont-debuts-with-the-gripping-and-powerful-fair-play/ |access-date=2023-11-20 |website=Trinitonian|date=November 3, 2023 }}
Early life and education
She is from Los Angeles. Her father, a cinephile, is credited for developing her love of film. Initially wanting to be a screenwriter, she made short films in high school.{{Cite web |last=Sciences |first=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and |title='Fair Play' Director Chloe Domont's Top 5 |url=https://aframe.oscars.org/what-to-watch/post/chloe-domont-top-5-exclusive |access-date=2023-11-19 |website=A.frame |language=en}} She attended NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, graduating with a BFA in film and television.{{Cite web |date=2023-10-09 |title=Fair Play Writer-Director Chloe Domont on Making of Her Office-Romance Disaster Movie |url=https://www.moviemaker.com/fair-play-chloe-domont/ |access-date=2023-11-17 |website=www.moviemaker.com |language=en-US}} At NYU she transitioned to directing.
Directing career
After graduation she directed commercials and wrote for short films. A chance meeting with Julian Farino led to a writers' assistant position on Ballers. Farino found her "monumentally overqualified," but still eager to learn with "an intensity of purpose." She advanced to the writers' room and then creator Steve Levinson gave her a chance to direct an episode, her first big break.{{Cite web |last=Rubin |first=Rebecca |date=2023-10-11 |title=With 'Fair Play,' Director Chloe Domont Creates the Kind of Steamy, Psycho-Sexual Thriller We Haven't Seen Since the '90s |url=https://variety.com/2023/film/news/chloe-domont-fair-play-netflix-deal-sex-scenes-feminism-1235751846/ |access-date=2023-11-20 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Thompson |first=Anne |date=2023-09-29 |title=How Chloe Domont's Hazing in Television Inspired Her Sundance Breakout 'Fair Play' |url=https://www.indiewire.com/features/interviews/chloe-domont-fair-play-interview-1234910778/ |access-date=2023-11-19 |website=IndieWire |language=en-US}} By 2017 she had steady television work, directing and writing for shows including Ballers, Suits and Billions.
Her debut film, Fair Play, which she wrote and directed, was personal for her{{Cite web |last1=Weintraub |first1=Steve |last2=Jones |first2=Tamera |date=2023-10-06 |title='Fair Play' Director Chloe Domont on the Importance of Intimate Scenes in Exploring the Power Dynamic |url=https://collider.com/fair-play-director-chloe-domont-interview/ |access-date=2023-11-20 |website=Collider |language=en}} and based on her life experiences. Her experience as the only woman in the Ballers writers' room is described as life changing. She felt that she had to "act like one of the boys," or lose her seat at the table. Also, she found that as she became more successful the men she dated became insecure. Domont set out to make an "exploration of that most exquisitely fragile of constructs—the male ego."{{Cite web |last=Abrams |date=2023-10-06 |title="Fair Play" Writer/Director Chloe Domont Makes a Killing on Male Fragility |url=https://www.motionpictures.org/2023/10/fair-play-writer-director-chloe-domont-makes-a-killing-on-male-fragility/ |access-date=2023-12-20 |website=Motion Picture Association |language=en-US}} The movie was felt to specifically speak to the #MeToo era.{{Cite web |title=MSN |url=https://www.msn.com/ |access-date=2024-03-13 |website=www.msn.com}} She used the genre of erotic thriller to show the ways women are forced to play ugly to survive and to demonstrate the dangers of male inferiority{{Cite web |date=2023-10-10 |title=Here's What You Need To Understand About 'Fair Play's Ending |url=https://www.womenshealthmag.com/life/a45485677/netflix-fair-play-ending-explained-chloe-domont-interview/ |access-date=2023-11-20 |website=Women's Health |language=en-US}} and fragility.{{Cite web |date=2023-10-06 |title='Fair Play' Was Always Going to End Like This |url=https://www.elle.com/culture/movies-tv/a45461519/fair-play-ending-explained-meaning-chloe-domont-interview/ |access-date=2023-11-20 |website=ELLE |language=en-US}} The film premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival to a "rapturous response."{{cite web
| url =https://www.indiewire.com/gallery/female-filmmakers-to-watch-2023/netflix-fysee-hosts-varietys-storytellers-event/
| title =28 Rising Female Filmmakers to Watch in 2023
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| first =Samantha
| date =2023-03-08
| publisher = Indie Wire
| access-date =2024-04-16}} Netflix won a distribution bidding war for $20 million. The theatre release was in September 2023. To be able to recreate the New York ambience that she envisioned, she went to Serbia to shoot; she had been warned that doing so would be "career suicide."{{Cite web |last=Hemphill |first=Jim |date=2023-12-22 |title='Risk Fuels Me': Writer/Director Chloe Domont on Her Explosive 'Fair Play' |url=https://www.indiewire.com/craft-considerations/fair-play-movie-chloe-domont-netflix-1234937300/ |access-date=2024-01-02 |website=IndieWire |language=en-US}} The film went on to score 85% on Rotten Tomatoes.{{cite web | url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/fair_play_2023 | title=Fair Play (2023) | Rotten Tomatoes | website=Rotten Tomatoes }}
As a filmmaker, she looks to create conversation and debate with films that shock and push the envelope; manipulate and do something different with a genre;Greenblatt, Leah: [https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/06/movies/chloe-domont-interview-fair-play.html Chloe Domont on Her Dangerous Date Movie, ‘Fair Play’] New York Times, Retrieved 2023-11-20 "and, ultimately have something really piercing to say at the end."
=Filmography=
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! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
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| 2017–2018
| Shooter | Director | 2 episodes |
| 2017–2019
| Ballers{{cite web | url=https://www.castingnetworks.com/news/how-chloe-domont-used-her-real-life-experiences-to-write-the-script-of-fair-play/ | title=How Chloe Domont Used Her Real-Life Experiences to Write the Script of 'Fair Play' | date=January 19, 2024 }} | Director, story editor | 7 episodes |
| 2019
| Suits | Director | 1 episode |
| 2020
| Director | 1 episode |
| 2021
| Clarice | Director | 2 episodes |
| 2022
| Billions{{cite web | url=https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/fair-play-movie-director-interview-chloe-domont-76564/ | title='Fair Play' Director Chloe Domont's Tried-and-True Method for Filmmakers | date=October 18, 2023 }} | Director | 2 episodes |
| 2023
| Director, writer, producer | Film |
| TBA
| Director, writer | Film |
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Category:Screenwriters from Los Angeles
Category:Film directors from Los Angeles
Category:Tisch School of the Arts alumni
Category:American women television directors
Category:American television directors
Category:American women television writers