Valeria Sarmiento

Valeria Sarmiento was born in Valparaíso on 29 October 1948. She studied philosophy and, from 1968, followed the new film course at the University of Chile in Valparaíso; there in 1969 she met Raúl Ruiz, whom she married. After the coup d'état of 1973, she settled in France, where she became Ruiz's regular editor and made her own documentaries on relations between the sexes, then fiction films. A Guggenheim Foundation fellow in 1988, she completed in 2012 a project of Ruiz's, who had died the previous year.

In the catalogue 1

• CinemaA Man, When He Is a ManEl hombre cuando es hombreValeria Sarmiento · 1982Cinema