Chloe Leland

Chloë Leland is an award-winning writer, director, executive producer and VFX specialist. She is also daughter of British film director and writer David Leland. She became first notable for playing Emily Lloyd's younger sister in David Leland's directional debut 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 (1998). Since that time she has written, produced, directed and shot documentaries and drama for television, including some of the highest-rated series for the Discovery Channel and Animal Planet. She worked as camera operator on multi-award-winning feature Concert for George and wrote, produced and directed Walking with Monsters, for which she won at the 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 extremely high ratings for BBC1, as well as winning BAFTA, RTS and VES awards. In 2010 she was once again Emmy-nominated for the critically acclaimed America – Story of Us, on which she worked as series VFX creative director. She has held high-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. An expert in turning tricky factual content into compelling stories, Leland has worked as development executive for the BBC Specialist Factual and other top independent companies, originating and developing reams of commissioned series and specials. She has written for factual and fully scripted television and authored children's books. She is currently writing several fiction and non-fiction books and is Creative Director at Academy award-winning Grain Productions.