Chloe Walters-Wallace

Chloe Walters-Wallace is a Jamaican creative with a passion for curation, travel, dancehall, and installation art. Currently, she is the Director of Regional Initiatives at Firelight Media, where she oversees the Groundwork Regional Lab and the new HOMEGROWN documentary shorts slate, supporting filmmakers of color in the South, Midwest & US Territories. In 2021 she helmed Firelight’s new digital series, HINDSIGHT, which chronicles the cultural shifts and pivotal conversations from the perspective of diverse communities in the American South and Puerto Rico during the unprecedented experience of 2020. This year she also guest-curated the 21′-22′ season for South Arts’ Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers, and launched The Caribbean Film Academy 2.0 at Third Horizon with co-creator Themba Bhebe. Previously, Chloe led the New Orleans Film Society’s Emerging Voices program and launched the Southern Producers Lab. She has worked for the Tribeca Film Institute, Clinica Estetico, Article 19 Films, as well as production companies in New York, London, New Orleans, & Jamaica.

Chloe is a 2021 JustFilms Rockwood Fellow, a 2015 Ortique Institute Fellow, and a 2007 Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow. She lives between New York and New Orleans and is on the board of Third Horizon.