Chloé Leriche is a Canadian film director from Montreal, Quebec.
[1] Her debut feature film, Before the Streets (Avant les rues), received six Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017, including Best Picture and a nod for Leriche as Best Director.
[2] Leriche, a largely self-taught filmmaker,[1] made a number of short films and worked as an educator with film and video training programs for homeless youth and First Nations,[3] before writing and directing Before the Streets.
[5] Before the Streets won the Borsos Competition award for best picture, and Leriche won the award for best director, at the 2016 Whistler Film Festival.
[7] Her second feature film, Atikamekw Suns (Soleils Atikamekw), premiered at the 2023 Festival du nouveau cinéma,[8] and was shortlisted for the 2023 DGC Discovery Award.