Chloe Leland


Chloe Leland is multi-award winning and a two-time Emmy and BAFTA- winning British writer, Director, Producer, Executive Producer and Creative Director.
She became first notable for playing Emily Lloyd's younger sister in Wish You Were Here in 1987. She later worked for Working Title as a researcher on several productions and as a location scout on the movie Land Girls (film)|Land Girls].
Since that time she has developed, written, produced, directed and shot documentaries and drama for television, including top-rating feature docs and series for Netflix, Disney, Discovery Channel, and BBC. She worked as camera operator on Grammy Award-winning Concert for George and wrote, produced and directed Walking with Monsters, which won a 58th [Primetime Emmy Awards] in the category Outstanding Animated Program and a VES as well as being nominated for a BAFTA and RTS.
Her next series, Fight For Life, received record ratings for BBC1, as well as winning BAFTA, RTS and VES awards. In 2010 her work was once again Emmy-nominated for America – Story of Us, as Creative Director and EP at Nutopia and series VFX director.
She has held top-level positions with some of the UK's top production companies, such as Head of Development for Impossible Pictures and Creative Director for Jane Root's Nutopia, where she developed series such as America - Story of Us, One Strange Rock and Babies .
She's well-known for her story-telling skills and developing unique visual signatures for her productions often using her extensive VFX experience. She specialises in making the purposeful commercial and creating wide-reaching films with positive social impact.
She has written for factual and fully scripted television as well as feature articles for the Independent and Guardian.
She is currently a Creative Director and Executive Producer at two time Academy Award-winning, Grain Media focused on projects which smuggle social purpose into wide-audience-reaching narratives. Her latest feature doc, BUY NOW! was in Netflix Global 5 for multiple weeks, achieved more than 1.5 billion impressions on TikTok and won an EMMY. Other notable credits include NETFLIX global top 2 feature THE LOST CHILDREN, CONVERGENCE and FROM DEVIL’S BREATH
Leland is the daughter of author, environmentalist and ecologist, Stephanie Lenz and director, writer and actor, David Leland.

Filmography

SINGLES AND SERIES
  • 1999 – Swingers Faithful To You in My Fashion
  • 2001 – Red Gold: The Epic Story of Blood
  • 2002 – Secret Life of the Crocodile – BBC 1.
  • 2003 – Genome – BBC1.
  • 2003 – Stephen Lawrence – Ten Years After
  • 2005 – Walking with Monsters EMMY and BAFTA winner-
  • 2007 – Fight for Life BAFTA winner -
  • 2010 – America – The Story of US. Series visual effects creative director
  • One Strange Rock - Nat Geo- Development Consultant/Exec
  • Babies - Netflix - Development Consultant/Exec
  • 2017 – Barbarians Rising EMMY NOM – show runner and series visual effects creative director/producer
FEATURE DOCUMENTARIES
  • A Concert For George - self shooting director
  • Convergence - Netflix - EP
  • From Devil’s Breath - MSNBC - Producer
  • The Walk - EP
  • The Lost Children - Netflix - EP
  • Buy Now - Netflix - EP