Valeria Sarmiento

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Valeria Sarmiento (* 1948 in Valparaíso ) is a Chilean film director and film editor .

Life

She studied film at the Universidad de Chile and married the director Raúl Ruiz in 1969 . After the coup in Chile in 1973 , the couple left Chile and went to Paris . Sarmiento made his own films and edited a large number of her husband's works. She was the editor of about two thirds of his films.

In 1984 she won the prize for best young director at the San Sebastian Film Festival with her film Notre mariage . She was also nominated for a number of other films at various film festivals , for example with Amelia Lópes O'Neill at the 1991 Berlinale .

In 2010 she was responsible for editing The Secrets of Lisbon , a film and a 4½ hour long television series of the same name for her husband, based on a novel by the Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco (1825–1890). After the death of her husband in 2011, Sarmiento directed the planned film project Lines of Wellington - Storm over Portugal (original Portuguese title: Linhas de Wellington ). The work, produced by Paulo Branco , is based on the story of the lines of Torres Vedras , a chain of fortresses that General Wellington built in Portugal against the Napoleonic invasions in the early 19th century. The film premiered in Portugal on October 4, 2012 and became Sarmiento's most commercially successful film. The work was also shown in a multi-part TV version, including a German-language version on arte . The film was released on DVD in various countries and won various prizes, including the Portuguese Globo de Ouro . Among other things, he was nominated for a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival .

Filmography

Director

  • 1972: Un sueño como de colores (short film, doc.)
  • 1972: Poesía popular: La teoría y la práctica (short film)
  • 1972: Los minuteros (short film, also screenplay)
  • 1973: Nueva Canción Chilena (short film, doc., Also screenplay)
  • 1979: Le mal du pays (short film, doc.)
  • 1979: Gens de nulle part, gens de toutes parts (also screenplay)
  • 1982: El hombre cuando es hombre (doc., Also screenplay)
  • 1984: Notre mariage (also screenplay)
  • 1991: Amelia Lópes O'Neill (also screenplay)
  • 1992: Latin Women Beat in California (TV doc.)
  • 1992: El planeta de los niños (TV doc.)
  • 1995: Elle (also screenplay)
  • 1998: Carlos Fuentes: Un voyage dans le temps (TV doc.)
  • 1998: L'inconnu de Strasbourg (also screenplay)
  • 1999: Mon premier french cancan (TV doc.)
  • 2002: Rosa la China (also screenplay)
  • 2004: Au Louvre avec Miguel Barceló (TV doc.)
  • 2008: Secretos (also screenplay)
  • 2012: Lines of Wellington - Storm over Portugal (also TV series)
  • 2013: Diario de mi residencia en Chile: María Graham (TV series)

Cut (selection)

  • 1974: The expropriation (D: Raúl Ruiz)
  • 1975: Les transplantés (D: Percy Matas )
  • 1975: Diálogos de exiliados (D: Raúl Ruiz)
  • 1976: People scattered and the world upside down (D: Raúl Ruiz)
  • 1979: The creation of a meal (D: Luc Moullet )
  • 1980: Guns (D: Robert Kramer )
  • 1983: Les minutes d'un faiseur de film (short film, D: Luc Moullet)
  • 1988: Brise-glace (D: Jean Rouch , Raúl Ruiz, Titte Törnroth )
  • 1997: Genealogies of a Crime (D: Raúl Ruiz)
  • 2001: The Strong Souls (D: Raúl Ruiz)
  • 2006: Klimt (D: Raúl Ruiz)
  • 2010: A Closed Book (D: Raúl Ruiz)
  • 2010: The Secrets of Lisbon (film and TV series, D: Raúl Ruiz)
  • 2012: La noche de enfrente (Ruiz's last film)
  • 2012: Lines of Wellington - Storm over Portugal (feature film and TV series, also director)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.imdb.com , accessed July 3, 2013
  2. ↑ www.mubi.com , accessed July 3, 2013
  3. ↑ www.imdb.com , accessed July 3, 2013
  4. ↑ www.imdb.com , accessed July 1, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Sarmiento, Valeria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chilean film editor and film director
DATE OF BIRTH 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Valparaíso , Chile