Valeria Sarmiento  

Chilean writer, director and editor Valeria Sarmiento has been based in Paris since 1974. She studied philosophy and filmmaking at the University of Chile. Her documentaries tend to address Latin American gender politics and she is probably best known as the regular editor and collaborator of her husband, Raoul Ruiz. She is often cited alongside Angelina Vásquez and Marilú Mallet as a key woman filmmaker of Chilean exile and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1988. A retrospective of her work as a director was held at Stanford University in May 2008. (10/09)