Valeria Sarmiento

Valeria Sarmiento (born in Valparaíso on October 29,1948) is a Chilean film editor, director and screenwriter. She has worked both in film and television. She has directed 19 feature films and documentaries since 1972. Her debut feature Notre mariage (1984) was a Grand Prix winner for Best New Director at the San Sebastián International Film Festival^[1] and her 1991 film Amelia Lópes O'Neill was entered into the 41st Berlin International Film Festival.^[2] She is the widow of Chilean film director Raúl Ruiz with whom she worked for decades as regular collaborator, editor and writer. She has also edited films for Luc Moullet, Robert Kramer and Ventura Pons and is a Guggenheim Fellow (1988). Her film Lines of Wellington competed for the Golden Lion at the 69th Venice International Film Festival.^[3]

Biography

Sarmiento was born in the Chilean municipality of Valparaíso, where she studied film. She married filmmaker Raúl Ruiz (director) in 1969. Four years later they were forced to move to Paris (France).

Filmography

Director

• El hombre cuando es hombre (1982)
• Notre mariage (1984)
• Amelia Lópes O'Neill (1991)
• Elle (1995)
• L'inconnu de Strasbourg (1998)
• Rosa la china (2002)
• Secretos (2008)
• Lines of Wellington (2012) (conceived by Raúl Ruiz, completed by Sarmiento)
• Diario de mi residencia en Chile: María Graham (2013)

Editor

• The Expropriation (1972)
• Dialogues of Exiles (1975)
• Colloque de chiens (1977)
• The Suspended Vocation (1978)
• The Territory (1981)
• On Top of the Whale (1982)
• City of Pirates (1983)
• Three Crowns of the Sailor (1983)
• Treasure Island (1985)
• Genealogies of a Crime (1997)
• Savage Souls (2001)
• That Day (2003)
• Klimt (2006)
• A Closed Book (2010)
• Mysteries of Lisbon (2010)

References

External links

• Valeria Sarmiento at the Internet Movie Database
• MUBI's Sarmiento page