Valeria Sarmiento

Valeria Sarmiento was born on Oct 29, 1948 in Chile. Valeria Sarmiento's big-screen debut came with Socialist Realism directed by Raúl Ruiz in 1973. Valeria Sarmiento is known for The Blind Owl directed by Raúl Ruiz, Jean-François Lapalus stars as and Jessica Forde as . Valeria Sarmiento has got 4 awards and 17 nominations so far. The most recent award Valeria Sarmiento achieved is Mar del Plata Film Festival. The upcoming new movie Valeria Sarmiento plays is The Black Book of Father Dinis which will be released on Dec 08, 2020.

Chilean writer-director and editor who studied philosophy and filmmaking at the University of Chile in the 1960s. Based in Paris since 1974, her documentaries and feature films tend to address Latin American gender politics but she is probably best known as the regular editor and collaborator of her late husband Raúl Ruiz (1941-2011) with whom she shared the Chilean Art Critics Circle's Bicentennial Award for cinema in 2010. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1988 and is often cited alongside Angelina Vázquez and Marilú Mallet as a key woman filmmaker of Chilean exile. A retrospective of her work as director was held at Stanford University in May 2008.